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Narrow sense Heritability (h 2 or H N) focuses specifically on the ratio of additive variance (V A) to total phenotypic variance (V P), or: h 2 = V A / V P.. In the study of Heritability, Additive genetic effects are of particular interest in the fields of Conservation, and Artificial selection.
H 2 is the broad-sense heritability. This reflects all the genetic contributions to a population's phenotypic variance including additive, dominant , and epistatic (multi-genic interactions), as well as maternal and paternal effects , where individuals are directly affected by their parents' phenotype, such as with milk production in mammals.
Estimation in biology/animal breeding using standard ANOVA/REML methods of variance components such as heritability, shared-environment, maternal effects etc. typically requires individuals of known relatedness such as parent/child; this is often unavailable or the pedigree data unreliable, leading to inability to apply the methods or requiring strict laboratory control of all breeding (which ...
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(Using a Plomin example, [38] for two traits with heritabilities of 0.60 & 0.23, =, and phenotypic correlation of r=0.45 the bivariate heritability would be =, so of the observed phenotypic correlation, 0.28/0.45 = 62% of it is due to correlative genetic effects, which is to say nothing of trait mutability in and of itself.)
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Heritability can be used as an important predictor to evaluate if a population can respond to artificial or natural selection. [ 5 ] Broad-sense heritability, H 2 = V G /V P , Involves the proportion of phenotypic variation due to the effects of additive, dominance, and epistatic variance.
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