Heritabilities are, on average, higher for behavioral disorders than for __________. mental characteristics psychological disorders medical disorders behavioral traits
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The extent to which an individual displays a trait phenotypes that can be influenced by many factors, including multiple genes and the environment, and chance events complex traits the average fraction of all alleles that two individuals share because they inherited them from a common ancestor trait values heritability genetic relatedness the fraction of total phenotypic variability of a trait due to genetic differences concordance LD blocks the extent to which two different individuals share a discrete trait stretches of genomic DNA within which clusters of linked alleles display linkage disequilibrium
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