heritability

American  

[her-i-tuh bil-i-tee] / ˌhɛr ɪ tə ˈbɪl ɪ ti /

noun

• heritabilities
  plural

1. the state or quality of being heritable.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• inheritability
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• heritabilities
  plural

Example Sentences

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heritability heritabilities

Buxbaum compares the heritability of autism to the heritability of height, another polygenic trait.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

"If your parents have schizophrenia, you're much more likely to get it than you are to get heart disease if your parents have the disease. There is a very large heritability for these brain-related conditions."

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

Although the heritability of cognitive ability appears to play some role on an individual level, there is also a lot of evidence that environment matters.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2023

So traits such as height, which is very genetic, can have a 50 to 80 percent heritability.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2023

The certain fact is, that a great distinction in respect of heritability is observable between congenital and acquired characters.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes

We found considerable genetic variation for all traits, with high broad sense heritabilities.

From Nature ● Feb. 8, 2012