Heritability at family mean level

Based on a polygenic system of a diploid species, without epistasis, and a population in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, without inbreeding and under linkage equilibrium, it can be shown that: (1) the narrow sense heritability at half-sib family level is equal to the square of the correlation coefficien...

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Main Author: José Marcelo Soriano Viana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade de Investigações Florestais 2002-05-01
Series:Revista Árvore
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-67622002000300002&tlng=en