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The Heritability of Pathogen Traits - Definitions and Estimators

2016-06-12

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Pathogen traits, such as the virulence of an infection, can vary significantly between patients. A major challenge is to measure the extent to which genetic differences between infecting strains explain the observed variation of the trait. This is quantified by the trait’s broad-sense heritability, H 2 . A recent discrepancy between estimates of the heritability of HIV-virulence has opened a debate on the estimat...

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DOI: 10.1101/058503

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