Estimating heritability from nuclear family and pedigree data

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 850, Issue , 2012, Pages 171-186

  Bochud, Murielle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Additive genetic variance; Broad sense heritability; Environmental variance; Familial aggregation; Family data; Genetic variance; Heritability; Narrow sense heritability; Nuclear families; Pedigrees; Polygenic variance; Total phenotypic variance; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84858226735     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-555-8_10     Document Type: Article

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