Inheritance of Antibody Response

Abstract

The heritability of antibody response to sheep red cells (S.R.C.) was found to be 0·2836 ± 0·1475 at 3 days and 0·1097 ± 0·1165 at 6 days. These estimates are subject to environmental variation of measurement which was found subsequently but could not be corrected for. An example of non-genetic, nonenvironmental error of measurement is illustrated experimentally and the consequences of this type of error are discussed.