Methods are developed for the resolution of cultural and biological inheritance based on qualitative data on pairs of relatives. Analysis of data on schizophrenia concluded in favor of significant cultural inheritance, assortative mating and familial environment unique to twins, in addition to biological inheritance. Genetic and cultural heritabilities were estimated as 0.707 ± 0.077 and 0.203 ± 0.120, respectively. Familial environmental component unique to twins was estimated as 0.090 ± 0.040.

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Rice, Cloninger & Reich (1980) showed that correlational data on American I.Q. is consistent with a rather low genetic heritability. Here we confirm their general results with a more parsimonious model. From phenotypic data alone, the estimates of genetic and cultural heritability are 0-31 and O42, respectively. Using environmental indices, the parsimonious estimates become O34 and 026, respectively.