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Heritability
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her·i·ta·ble  (hr-t-bl)
adj.
1. Capable of being passed from one generation to the next; hereditary.
2. Capable of inheriting or taking by inheritance.

[Middle English, from Old French, from heriter, to inherit, from Late Latin hrditre; see inherit.]

heri·ta·bili·ty n.
heri·ta·bly adv.


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Narrow sense heritability was estimated as the proportion of additive genetic variance to total variance as follows, where the terms are the variance components for the terms in the earlier mentioned model: [h.
 
 
 
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