The estimates of general combining ability effects suggested that among females GDM-4 and males IC-399819 EC-766060 were the best combiners for seed yield few other characters. specific revealed hybrids GM-2 x EC-766437 followed by RH-406 EC-766378 exhibited positive sca in desirable direction per plant. hybrid EC-766043 RH-749 EC-766495 significant negative days to 50 cent flowering GM-3 matur...

partial diallel design can be used to investigate the general and specific combining ability, and heterosis. combining ability and heterosis were studied in a 6×6 partial diallel cross to see the nature of gene action for fruit quality indices in cucumber (cucumis sativus l.) during 2007 to 2009. analysis of variance revealed highly significant differences among all the f1 hybrid means and thei...

genetic parameters for birth weight (bw), weaning weight (ww), 6 months weight (6mw), 9 months weight (9mw) and yearling weight (yw) in baluchi sheep were estimated using data collected during a 26-year period (1984-2010). estimates of (co)variance components were obtained by reml procedures by fitting a linear mixed animal model. significant random effects for each trait were explored by fitti...

due to the presence of polyphenols and phthalides in kelussia odoratissima mozzaf (umbelliferae; k. odoratissima hereafter), this medicinal plant might be a robust in-feed additive to modulate lipid peroxidation in meat-type chickens. the present study evaluates antioxidative, antihyperlipidemic, and growth-promoting effects of k. odoratissima in meat-type chickens. in a 37-day trial (5-42 days...

Eight quantitative traits of an F2 MAGIC population in rice were subjected to analyze variability, correlation and path analysis. The results third fourth degree statistics (skewness kurtosis) showed that Individual dried straw weight, 1000-seed grain yield, Number effective tillers are associated with complementary gene interaction, requiring intense selection, while Plant height, Panicle leng...

Human memory is a highly heritable polygenic trait with complex inheritance patterns. To study the genetics of memory and memory-related diseases, hippocampal functioning has served as an intermediate phenotype. The importance of investigating gene-gene effects on complex phenotypes has been emphasized, but most imaging studies still focus on single polymorphisms. APOE ε4 and BDNF Met, two of t...

Understanding the genetic background of complex diseases requires expansion studies beyond univariate associations. Therefore, it is important to use interaction assessments risk factors in order discover whether, and how variants act together on disease development. The principle analysis explore magnitude combined effect causation. In this study, we simulations investigate different scenarios...

Bayesian hierarchical models have been used for smoothing splines, thin-plate splines, and L-splines. In analyzing high dimensional data sets, additive models and backfitting methods are often used. A full Bayesian analysis for such models may include a large number of random effects, many of which are not intuitive, so researchers typically use noninformative improper or nearly improper priors...