ESTIMATION OF GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS FOR TWO BINARY TRAITS WITH AN UNDERLYING CONTINUOUS SCALE- A SIMULATION STUDY

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Reda Elsaid ¹
• Manal Elsayed ²

¹ Environmental Studies and Research Institute (ESRI), Department of Sustainable Development, Menofiya University, Sadat Branch, 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
• mean squared errors
• genetic and environmental correlation