Estimation of heritability for Tying-up syndrome in the Thoroughbred racehorse by Gibbs sampling

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 289-293

  Oki, H ^a   Miyake, T ^b   Hasegawa, T ^a   Sasaki, Y ^b  

^a EQUINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; INBREEDING; JAPAN; PEDIGREE; RHABDOMYOLYSIS;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BREEDING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INBREEDING; JAPAN; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; RHABDOMYOLYSIS;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 25444520516     PISSN: 09312668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0388.2005.00539.x     Document Type: Article

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