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Can heritability be negative value

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Yes, but negative variance indicates environmental variance (i.e., within-family or within-strain) is unusually high, possibly due to poor experimental design.

Narrow sense heritability (h2, not H2) = (phenotypic variance - environmental variance) / phenotypic variance.

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