Essential Genetics 6th Edition by Daniel Hartl

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Some estimates of broad-sense heritabilities of human traits are 0.85 for adult height, 0.62 for body weight, 0.57 for systolic blood pressure, 0.44 for diastolic blood pressure, 0.50 for twinning, and 0.1 to 0.2 for overall fertility. Which of these characteristics is most likely to "run in families"? If one of your parents and one of your grandparents has high blood pressure, should you be concerned about the likelihood of you having the same problem?