Variance Component Estimation for Dichotomous Characters and Its Use for Estimating Heritability

✍ Scribed by Dr. V. Guiard; Dr. sc. G. G. Herrend Örfer; A. Tuchscherer

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 232 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0323-3847
• DOI: 10.1002/bimj.4710270607

✦ Synopsis

By transforming dichotomous characters (for instance the presence or absence of a certain disease) to zero-one characters it is possible to estimate the variance and variance components. This paper explains the peculiarities occurring in the linear model and estimation functions and the application of the method for heritability estimation.