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Heritability

Probability and Statistics

Heritability is a statistic used in the fields of breeding and genetics that estimates the proportion of variation in a phenotypic trait within a population that is attributable to genetic variation among individuals in that population, rather than to environmental factors or random chance. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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    Heritability is a statistic used in the fields of breeding and genetics that estimates the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population.
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    Heritability is a statistic used in the fields of breeding and genetics that estimates the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population.
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