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. 1979 Dec;93(4):1051–1055. doi: 10.1093/genetics/93.4.1051

Heritability of Polychotomous Characters

Daniel Gianola 1
PMCID: PMC1214115  PMID: 17248982

Abstract

Characters with phenotypic expression consisting of a response in one of several mutually exclusive and exhaustive categories are considered. Formulae relating heritability in the discrete, outward scale to heritability in underlying normal and exponential scales are presented. For the normal case with two response categories, results reduce to the well-known formula for heritability of binary traits.

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