Heritability
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heritability-275-4915977
title:
Heritability
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Heritability is a statistic used in the fields of breeding and genetics that estimates the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population. The concept of heritability can be expressed in the form of the following question: "What is the proportion of the variation in a given trait within a population that is not explained by the environment or random chance?" Other causes of measured variation in a trait are charac
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Estimation of effect of genetic variation on phenotypic variation of a trait
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability
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2024-02-05T22:20:26Z
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