Estimating the Additive Heritability of Historiometric Eminence in a Super-Pedigree Comprised of Four Prominent Families.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101244624 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1832-4274 (Print) Linking ISSN: 18324274 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Twin Res Hum Genet Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: 2012- : Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press
      Original Publication: Bowen Hills, QLD, Australia : Published for the ISTS by Australian Academic Press, [2005]-
    • Subject Terms:
      Bayes Theorem*; Humans ; Pedigree
    • Abstract:
      By merging analytical approaches from the fields of historiometrics and behavior genetics, a social pedigree-based estimate of the heritability of eminence is generated. Eminent individuals are identified using the Pantheon dataset. A single super-pedigree, comprised of four prominent and interrelated families (including the Wedgwood-Darwin, Arnold-Huxley, Keynes-Baha'u'lláh, and Benn-Rutherford pedigrees) is assembled, containing 30 eminent individuals out of 301 in total. Each eminent individual in the super-pedigree is assigned a relative measure of historical eminence (scaled from 1 to 100) with noneminent individuals assigned a score of 0. Utilizing a Bayesian pedigree-based heritability estimation procedure employing an informed prior, an additive heritability of eminence of .507 (95% CI [.434, .578]) was found. The finding that eminence is additively heritable is consistent with expectations from behavior-genetic studies of factors that are thought to underlie extraordinary accomplishment, which indicate that they are substantially additively heritable. Owing to the limited types of intermarriage present in the data, it was not possible to estimate the impact of nonadditive genetic contributions to heritability. Gene-by-environment interactions could not be estimated in the present analysis either; therefore, the finding that eminence is simply a function of additive genetic and nonshared environmental variance should be interpreted cautiously.
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: Eminence; heritability; historiometrics; pedigree analysis
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20210913 Date Completed: 20211220 Latest Revision: 20211220
    • Publication Date:
      20221213
    • Accession Number:
      10.1017/thg.2021.29
    • Accession Number:
      34511158