An approximation of the minimum-variance estimator of heritability based on variance component analysis

M Grossman1, H W Norton

  • 1Departments of Dairy Science and Animal Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801.

Genetics
|June 1, 1981
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