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Confidence intervals for heritability via Haseman-Elston regression.
Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology - 26 Sept 2017
Sofer Tamar
Abstract excerpt
Heritability is the proportion of phenotypic variance in a population that is attributable to individual genotypes. Heritability is considered an important measure in both evolutionary biology and in medicine, and is routinely estimated and reported in genetic epidemiology studies. In population-based genome-wide association studies (GWAS), mixed models are used to estimate variance components, from which a...
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