Realized sampling variances of estimates of genetic parameters and the difference between genetic and phenotypic correlations

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1409-1416

  Roots, Kenneth R ^a   Gibson, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATTLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; GENOTYPE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0029949920     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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