Table 4 Coefficients for expressions describing the expected phenotypic covariance between male relatives in the proposed breeding design to estimate variances due to autosomal, sex-linked and sex-specific gene expression

From: The quantitative genetics of sexual dimorphism: assessing the importance of sex-linkage

Male–male relationships

Coefficients

 

Autosomal

Sex-linked

Maternal

 

V A a

V D a

V A X

V D X

V E m

V A m

Cov A m

1. Father-Son

1/2

0

0

 

0

0

1/4

2. Full brothers

1/2

1/4

1/2

 

1

1

1

3. Paternal half brothers

1/4

0

0

 

0

0

0

4. Single first cousins, dams full sisters

1/8

0

3/8

 

0

1/2

1/2

5. Single first cousins, sires full brothers

1/8

0

0

 

0

0

0

6. Single first cousins, opposite sex full sibs

1/8

0

0

 

0

0

1/4

7. Double first cousins, sires full brothers, dams full sisters

1/4

1/16

3/8

 

0

1/2

1/2

8. Double first cousins, opposite sex full sibs

1/4

1/16

0

 

0

0

1/2

9. Paternal uncle–nephew

1/4

0

0

 

0

0

1/4

10. Maternal uncle–nephew

1/4

0

0

 

0

1/2

3/4

11. Paternal grandfather–grandson

1/4

0

0

 

0

0

1/8

12. Maternal grandfather–grandson

1/4

0

1/2

 

0

1/4

5/8

  1. Modified (and corrected) from Tables 23.1, 24.1 of Lynch and Walsh (1998), Eisen (1967) and Grossman and Eisen (1989). Maternal dominance variance is assumed to be zero and environmental maternal effects are assumed to be transmitted only over one generation.