heritability

heritability definition - medical

her·i·ta·bil·i·ty (hĕrˌĭ-tə-bĭlˈĭ-tē)

noun
  1. The quality of being heritable.
  2. The proportion of phenotypic variance attributable to variance in genotypes.

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