Causation and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Heritability

Philosophy of Science 87 (5):1073-1083 (2020)
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Genome-wide association studies of human complex traits have provided us with new estimates of heritability. These estimates foreground the question of genetic causation. After having presen...

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