Daniel Shriner

1 week ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Daniel Shriner |Amy Bentley |Ayo P. Doumatey |Jie Zhou

1 Introduction Narrow-sense heritability is defined as the ratio of additive genetic variance to total phenotypic variance and is interrogated by conventional genome-wide association studies assuming the standard additive genetic model. In contrast, broad-sense heritability is defined as the ratio of total genetic variance to total phenotypic variance, capturing the contribution of non-additive genetics to total phenotypic variance.