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  2. Heritability - Wikipedia

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    Heritability increases when genetics are contributing more variation or because non-genetic factors are contributing less variation; what matters is the relative contribution. Heritability is specific to a particular population in a particular environment.

  3. Truncation selection - Wikipedia

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    The effects of truncation selection for a continuous trait can be modeled by the standard breeder's equation by using heritability and truncated normal distributions. On a binary trait, it can be modeled easily using the liability threshold model .

  4. Additive genetic effects - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Best linear unbiased prediction - Wikipedia

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    (This is a bit strange since the random effects have already been "realized"; they already exist. The use of the term "prediction" may be because in the field of animal breeding in which Henderson worked, the random effects were usually genetic merit, which could be used to predict the quality of offspring (Robinson [1] page 28)). However, the ...

  6. Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection - Wikipedia

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    The theorem was first formulated in Fisher's 1930 book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. [4] Fisher likened it to the law of entropy in physics, stating that "It is not a little instructive that so similar a law should hold the supreme position among the biological sciences".

  7. Realizability - Wikipedia

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    Kleene's original version of realizability uses natural numbers as realizers for formulas in Heyting arithmetic.A few pieces of notation are required: first, an ordered pair (n,m) is treated as a single number using a fixed primitive recursive pairing function; second, for each natural number n, φ n is the computable function with index n.

  8. Genetic variance - Wikipedia

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    Ronald Fisher in 1913. Genetic variance is a concept outlined by the English biologist and statistician Ronald Fisher in his fundamental theorem of natural selection.In his 1930 book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, Fisher postulates that the rate of change of biological fitness can be calculated by the genetic variance of the fitness itself. [1]

  9. Genome-wide complex trait analysis - Wikipedia

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    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 ...