Estimating genetic parameters in natural populations using the ‘animal model’
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- 29 June 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 359 (1446) , 873-890
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2003.1437
Abstract
Estimating the genetic basis of quantitative traits can be tricky for wild populations in natural environments, as environmental variation frequently obscures the underlying evolutionary patterns. I review the recent application of restricted maximum–likelihood ‘animal models’ to multigenerational data from natural populations, and show how the estimation of variance components and prediction of breeding values using these methods offer a powerful means of tackling the potentially confounding effects of environmental variation, as well as generating a wealth of new areas of investigation.Keywords
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