In this post I am going to talk about what is heritability and how to estimate it using WGS data for non-family data.

“Statistics prior to animal breeding was not very concerned with predicting random effects. These were somewhat seen as nuisance parameters.” Here nuisance parameters mean that those are not of primary interest but still affect the model and its estimates, which is true in a normal mixed models with random effect.

Reference

1. Population Genomics, Concepts, Approaches and Applications. (Springer Cham, 2019). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04589-0.
2. Textbook Animal Breeding and Genetics (second edition, 2024) https://wiki.groenkennisnet.nl/space/TAB