SASQuant: A SAS software program to estimate genetic effects and heritabilities of quantitative traits in populations consisting of 6 related generations

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 345-350

  Gusmini, Gabriele ^a   Wehner, Todd C ^b   Donaghy, Sandra B ^b  

^a SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; PLANT BREEDING; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SOFTWARE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34548284501     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esm033     Document Type: Article

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