Avoiding pitfalls in estimating heritability with the common options approach

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Danchin, Etienne ^a,b   Wajnberg, Eric ^c   Wagner, Richard H ^d  

^a École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84901699000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03974     Document Type: Article

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