Sources of information for estimating heritability from selection experiments
- 1 February 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Genetics Research
- Vol. 63 (1) , 49-55
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016672300032079
Abstract
Summary Maximum likelihood estimation methods with an individual animal model were used to analyse a bi-directional selection experiment, with control, for cannon bone length in Scottish Blackface sheep. A method is described for partitioning the likelihood to allow within- and between-line estimates of genetic variance. It is concluded that both sources of information made substantial contributions to the precision of the base population heritability estimate. The implications for different experimental designs and varying heritability are discussed.Keywords
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