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Investigating pedigree- and SNP-associated components of heritability in a wild population of Soay sheep.
Heredity - 1 Apr 2024
James Caelinn, Pemberton Josephine M, Navarro Pau, Knott Sara
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Estimates of narrow sense heritability derived from genomic data that contain related individuals may be biased due to the within-family effects such as dominance, epistasis and common environmental factors. However, for many wild populations, removal of related individuals from the data would result in small sample sizes. In 2013, Zaitlen et al. proposed a method to estimate heritability in populations that...
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