heritability in the broad sense

her·i·ta·bil·i·ty in the broad sense

the proportion of the total phenotypic variance that can be ascribed to genetic factors of any kind (additive, those due to dominance effects, epistasis and hypostasis, and interactions of all kinds).

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The extent to which a phenotype is determined by its genetic makeup (genotype) is called heritability in the broad sense.

GENOTYPE x ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION AND HERITABILITY ESTIMATES FOR SOME AGRONOMIC CHARACTERS IN SUNFLOWER

All of the heritability in the narrow sense of sire half-sib and the heritability in the broad sense of dam full-sib of body weight, test diameter of S.

Study on heritability of growth in the juvenile sea urchin Strongylocentrotus nudus

Heritability in the broad sense on parental clones evaluated over 2 yr and two locations on a single plant basis was 0.