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The 'heritability' of domestication and its functional partitioning in the pig.
Heredity - 1 Feb 2017
Pérez-Enciso M, de Los Campos G, Hudson N, Kijas J, Reverter A
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We propose to estimate the proportion of variance explained by regression on genome-wide markers (or genomic heritability) when wild/domestic status is considered the phenotype of interest. This approach differs from the standard Fst in that it can accommodate genetic similarity between individuals in a general form. We apply this strategy to complete genome data from 47 wild and domestic pigs from Asia and...
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