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Sources of information for estimating heritability from selection experiments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 April 2009
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Maximum likelihood estimation methods with an individual animal model were used to analyse a bi-directional selection experiment, with control, for cannon bone length in Scottish Blackface sheep. A method is described for partitioning the likelihood to allow within- and between-line estimates of genetic variance. It is concluded that both sources of information made substantial contributions to the precision of the base population heritability estimate. The implications for different experimental designs and varying heritability are discussed.
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