The Role of Different Pedigree Structures on the Sampling Variance of Heritability Estimates

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2355-2361

  Reverter, A ^a   Kaiser, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Heritability; Pedigree; Variance Components

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; PEDIGREE; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEDIGREE; SEASONS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031226382     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1997.7592355x     Document Type: Article

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