Self S G, Leamy L
Genetics. 1978 Jan;88(1):109-20. doi: 10.1093/genetics/88.1.109.
Heritabilities of 11 quasi-continuous skeletal traits were estimated in randombred house mice of three separate ages (1, 3, and 5 months). Three separate methods--regression, maximum likelihood correlation, and Falconer's Method--were used to obtain heritabilities for each of the separate age groups. Significant differences in the incidences of seven of the skeletal traits were found among ages, but they did not affect the heritability estimates, these estimates being pooled over ages. Heritabilities calcuated from female parents were consistently higher (by about 13%) than those from male parents, indicating the presence of maternal effects. Mid-parent estimates made by all three methods gave very similar mean levels (0.17--0.20). Although low, this level compared favorably with that expected on the basis of previously estimated rates of accumulation of genetic variance. Maternal effects estimated from full sib correlations averaged 0.08.
在三个不同年龄（1个月、3个月和5个月）的随机繁殖家鼠中，对11个近似连续的骨骼性状的遗传力进行了估计。使用了三种不同的方法——回归法、最大似然相关法和Falconer法——来获得每个单独年龄组的遗传力。在不同年龄之间发现了七种骨骼性状发生率的显著差异，但它们并未影响遗传力估计值，这些估计值是按年龄合并的。由母本计算出的遗传力始终高于父本（约高13%），表明存在母体效应。通过所有三种方法得出的中亲估计值给出了非常相似的平均水平（0.17 - 0.20）。虽然这个水平较低，但与根据先前估计的遗传方差积累速率预期的水平相比仍较为有利。从全同胞相关性估计的母体效应平均为0.08。
