narrow-sense heritability
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narrow-sense heritability
(¦nar·ō ′sens ′her·ə·tə′bil·əd·ē)
(genetics) The degree to which individual phenotypes are determined by the genes transmitted from the parents; expressed as the ratio of the additive genetic variance to the total phenotypic variance.
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