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Estimating Heritability from Nuclear Family and Pedigree Data.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2017
Bochud Murielle
Abstract excerpt
Heritability is a measure of familial resemblance. Estimating the heritability of a trait could be one of the first steps in the gene mapping process. This chapter describes how to estimate heritability for quantitative traits from nuclear and pedigree data using the ASSOC program in the Statistical Analysis in Genetic Epidemiology (S.A.G.E.) software package. Estimating heritability rests on the assumption that...
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