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Heritability Estimates of Antler and Body Traits in White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) From Genomic-Relatedness Matrices.
The Journal of heredity - 30 Sept 2020
Jamieson Aidan, Anderson Spencer J, Fuller Jérémie, Côté Steeve D, Northrup Joseph M, Shafer Aaron B A
Abstract excerpt
Estimating heritability (h2) is required to predict the response to selection and is useful in species that are managed or farmed using trait information. Estimating h2 in free-ranging populations is challenging due to the need for pedigrees; genomic-relatedness matrices (GRMs) circumvent this need and can be implemented in nearly any system where phenotypic and genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)...
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