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Abstract
A lower bound on heritability in a natural environment can be determined from the regression of offspring raised in the laboratory on parents raised in nature. An estimate of additive genetic variance in the laboratory is also required. The estimated lower bounds on heritabilities can sometimes be used to demonstrate a significant genetic correlation between two traits in nature, if their genetic and phenotypic correlations in nature have the same sign, and if sample sizes are large, and heritabilities and phenotypic and genetic correlations are high.Mesh:
Year: 1989 PMID: 2515111 PMCID: PMC1203895
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Genetics ISSN: 0016-6731 Impact factor: 4.562