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Author Correction: Testing the key assumption of heritability estimates based on genome-wide genetic relatedness.

Dalton ConleyMark L SiegalBenjamin W DomingueKathleen Mullan HarrisMatthew B McQueenJason D Boardman
Published in: Journal of human genetics (2019)
In the original paper, we used the variable "URBRUR08," from the 2008 survey wave as a measure of childhood urbanicity. Upon further investigation we realized that this variable actually measured Beale urban-rural code during the respondent's adulthood.  Thus, we reran our analysis of the pseudo-heritability of childhood urbanicity using the variable. The original results hold such that even with the first 20 principal components held constant, childhood urban-rural status appears to be ~20% "heritable" in GREML models-a figure that is actually higher than the original estimate reported in the paper (14% controlling for 25 PCs, 15% controlling for 10 PCs, and 29% controlling for two PCs). Meanwhile, the heritabilities of the other phenotypes-height, BMI and education-still do not change when they are residualized on childhood urbanicity. In other words, the original results of the paper do not change.
Keyphrases
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  • gene expression
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