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Genetic variance associated with the average effects of substituting one allele for another.
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Genetic variance at a single locus attributable to dominance of one allele over another.
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Genetic variance
: The phenotypic variance in a population that is due to genetic heterogeneity.
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2 implements the Multipoint IBD method (Goldgar, 1990; Goldgar and Oniki, 1992) for partitioning genetic variance of quantitative traits to specific chromosomal regions using data on nuclear families.
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heritability (in the narrow sense)A measure of the extent to which genes inherited from parents determine phenotypes; defined as the ratio of the additive genetic variance to total phenotypic variance; also called realized heritability.
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Maybe you'd be better off starting on Drug A if you have one set of genetic variations and better off on Drug B if you have a different set of genetic variance. [This] could be very useful to identify which drugs will work best in which patients.
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