HERITABILITY OF POLYCHOTOMOUS CHARACTERS
Open Access
- 1 December 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 93 (4) , 1051-1055
- https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/93.4.1051
Abstract
Characters with phenotypic expression consisting of a response in one of several mutually exclusive and exhaustive categories are considered. Formulae relating heritability in the discrete, outward scale to heritability in underlying normal and exponential scales are presented. For the normal case with two response categories, results reduce to the well-known formula for heritability of binary traits.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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