... effects and the contribution of the damto the genotype of her offspring, the direct genetic variance being inflated bypart of the genetic maternal variance. It seems that another part of maternalheritability ... unconnected), the four levels of pedigree information (100, 50, 20 and 10% of paternity known) and degree of genetic differences among flocks (GD0, GD10, GD20 and GD30). The average and the empirical standard ... moreimportant.Regardless of the level of connectedness, the alteration of genealogicalinformation, through a progressive elimination of paternity, acted on the pre-cision of variances and covariance,...