Quantitative Traits: Risk assessment
About the Lecture
The lecture Quantitative Traits: Risk assessment by Georgina Cornwall, PhD is from the course Multifactorial Inheritance.
Included Quiz Questions
What is the measure of the tendency of two variables to be similar?
- Coefficient of correlation
- Coefficient of heritability
- The correlation constant
- The heritability constant
- The coefficient of concordance
Which of the following r values shows the greatest positive correlation between two variables?
- 1.0
- 0.5
- 2.0
- 0
- -0.5
What would be the value of H2 if all the variation of a phenotypic trait in a population is attributable to genetic variation?
- 1
- 2
- 0
- -1
- -0.5
Which of the following situations offers evidence of the heritability of a trait found in twin studies?
- Monozygotic twins are more likely to have the same traits than dizygotic twins.
- Monozygotic twins are less likely to have the same traits than dizygotic twins.
- Dizygotic twins are more likely to have the same traits than monozygotic twins.
- Monozygotic twins don't have the same traits when raised in different environments.
- Dizygotic twins don't have the same traits when raised in different environments.
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Author of lecture Quantitative Traits: Risk assessment
Georgina Cornwall, PhD
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