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Using pooled data to estimate variance components and breeding values for traits affected by social interactions.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 26 Jul 2013
Peeters Katrijn, Ellen Esther Dorien, Bijma Piter
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BACKGROUND: Through social interactions, individuals affect one another's phenotype. In such cases, an individual's phenotype is affected by the direct (genetic) effect of the individual itself and the indirect (genetic) effects of the group mates. Using data on individual phenotypes, direct and indirect genetic (co)variances can be estimated. Together, they compose the total genetic variance that determines a...
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