Estimating variance components in natural populations using inferred relationships

Heredity

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 427-436

  Thomas, Stuart C ^a   Pemberton, Josephine M ^a   Hill, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heritability; Likelihood; Marker information; Pedigree information; Regression; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC MARKER; HERITABILITY; NATURAL POPULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PEDIGREE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034093975     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00681.x     Document Type: Article

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