Scientists Estimate That the Heritability of Depression Is Around 37

Multiple Choice

Scientists estimate that the heritability of depression is around 37 percent. This suggests that

A) 37 percent of people who carry a gene for depression will develop depression at some point in their lives.
B) genes explain 37 percent of people with depression, while environmental influences explain the other 63 percent.
C) about 37 percent of the variability in depression in the population is due to the variability in the genes in the population.
D) about 37 percent of depressed people in the population have expressed a gene carried by everyone in the population.