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Title: Genetic factors and shared environment contribute equally to objective singing ability.
Austin Authors: Yeom, Daniel;Tan, Yi Ting;Haslam, Nick;Mosing, Miriam A;Yap, Valerie M Z;Fraser, Trisnasari;Hildebrand, Michael S ;Berkovic, Samuel F ;McPherson, Gary E;Peretz, Isabelle;Wilson, Sarah J
Affiliation: International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research and Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC H2V 2S9, Canada..
Epilepsy Research Centre
Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia..
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia..
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, Southbank, VIC 3006, Australia..
Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden..
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden..
Issue Date: 6-May-2022
Date: 2022-06-17
Publication information: iScience 2022; 25(6): 104360
Abstract: Singing ability is a complex human skill influenced by genetic and environmental factors, the relative contributions of which remain unknown. Currently, genetically informative studies using objective measures of singing ability across a range of tasks are limited. We administered a validated online singing tool to measure performance across three everyday singing tasks in Australian twins (n = 1189) to explore the relative genetic and environmental influences on singing ability. We derived a reproducible phenotypic index for singing ability across five performance measures of pitch and interval accuracy. Using this index we found moderate heritability of singing ability (h 2 = 40.7%) with a striking, similar contribution from shared environmental factors (c 2 = 37.1%). Childhood singing in the family home and being surrounded by music early in life both significantly predicted the phenotypic index. Taken together, these findings show that singing ability is equally influenced by genetic and shared environmental factors.
URI: https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/30291
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104360
ORCID: 0000-0003-2739-0515
0000-0003-4580-841X
Journal: iScience
PubMed URL: 35633942
PubMed URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35633942/
Type: Journal Article
Subjects: anthropology
quantitative genetics
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