QUALITY OF HERITABILITY ESTIMATES AS AFFECTED BY LEVEL OF HERITABILITY, NUMBER OF PROGENY PER SIRE, TYPE OF ALGORITHM, TYPE OF MODEL AND TYPE OF TRAIT

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Reda Elsaid ¹
• Manal Elsayed ²
• E. S.E. Galal ²
• H. M.K. Mansour ²

¹ Department of Animal Production, Environmental Studies and Research Institute, Menoufia University, Sadat City, Egypt

² Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Shoubra El-Khaima, Cairo, Egypt

Keywords

• Continuous traits
• binary traits
• heritability estimates quality-Gibbs sampling
• bias