Genetic testing involves the detection of specific alleles, mutations, genotypes or karyotypes that are associated with heritable traits, diseases or predispositions to disease for the individual ...

σ 2: phenotypic variance: the measured variance in the trait of interest. h 2: heritability: the proportion of phenotypic variance in a trait attributable to additive genetic effects. b: phenotypic ...

Temperament ranked No.1 as a trait of importance by beef producers Docility is moderately heritable and can be selected for to make improvements without compromise on other key production traits.

While plant breeders have historically focused on improving producer-orientated traits such as yield, consumer-oriented traits such as flavor ... Florida Research Computing for providing computational ...

To avoid potential problems with inversion, three different weighting factors were applied to combine the genomic and pedigree matrices. Across the studied traits, ssGBLUP had higher heritability ...

The analysis of variance implied that the genetic effect of all traits, except aspect ratio, were significant (Table 1). Further analysis showed that solidity and roundness have similar, large broad ...

This may arise from diverse functional traits among species. In fact, genetic diversity within species can have similarly large effects. However, studies of intraspecific genetic diversity have used ...