Takeaway: more room for environment

Everything from your height to your heart disease risk can be determined by your genes and your environment.

A major study looked at 34 characteristics and diseases to ask, how much can genetics determine?

In some cases the environment – where you live, how you live and what you eat – had more sway than previously thought.

Guest/s

• Professor Loic Yengo, group leader at the Statistical Genomics Laboratory at the University of Queensland 

References

• Estimation and mapping of the missing heritability of human phenotypes