On negative heritability and negative estimates of heritability

We consider the problem of interpreting negative maximum likelihood estimates of heritability that sometimes arise from popular statistical models of additive genetic variation. These may result from random noise acting on estimates of genuinely positive heritability, but we argue that they may also...

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Main Authors: Steinsaltz, D, Dahl, A, Wachter, KW
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Genetics Society of America 2020