Abstract
This paper considers modifications of the usual procedures for estimating heritability from nested or diallel mating designs assuming various types of relationships among the dams in the parent population. For the underlying linear models a covariance structure is introduced. It is shown how the resulting structural variance and covariance components can be expressed in terms of genetic and environmental variance components and certain types of average coefficients of relationship. This correspondence is used in evaluating the E(MS) in the analysis of variance table which then leads to estimators for h2.
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