Estimating heritability using genomic data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1151-1158

  Stanton Geddes, John ^a,c   Yoder, Jeremy B ^a   Briskine, Roman ^b   Young, Nevin D ^a   Tiffin, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Genomic selection; GWAS; Heritability; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889672900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12129     Document Type: Article

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