Estimation of Variance Components with Large-Scale Dominance Models

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 965-974

  Misztal, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance; Inbreeding; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0347980306     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(97)76021-1     Document Type: Article

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