PMID: 2093229Jan 1, 1990Paper

Are heritability estimates generalizable? Lack of evidence from cross-sample correlations

Social Biology
I R Nicholson

Abstract

The majority of research indicates that estimates of heritability are not generalizable beyond the specific sample on which they have been calculated. This research has been limited, however, in its scope. The present set of investigations center upon an examination of previously reported heritability estimates for the scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). The first investigation correlates the estimates for eight samples derived from a variety of published studies. The second investigated correlates the DZ twin pair and MZ twin pair intraclass correlations from four of the first investigation's samples. The third investigation correlates the estimates from one study in which the same sample was tested twice over a period of less than five years. It is concluded that no evidence is available for the generalizability of these estimates of MMPI scale heritability either across samples or even across time with the same sample.

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