Table 4 The estimates of the variance components and broad-sense heritabilities for the learning and adapted phases from the Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis of the QTLMAS XII data set

From: Bayesian adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation of genetic parameters

 

Learning phase

Adapted phase

REML

True

 

Mean

Median

Mode

Mean

Median

Mode

  

σ a 2

1.33

1.32

1.10

1.34

1.33

1.31

1.35

1.36

σ d 2

0.09

0.10

0.10

0.01

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

σ e 2

3.06

3.06

2.84

3.13

3.13

3.15

3.12

3.20

h 2

0.46

0.46

0.29

0.30

0.29

0.29

0.30

0.30

  1. Abbreviation: REML, residual maximum likelihood.
  2. REML estimates and true simulated values for the entire pedigree are also shown. The true value for the additive variance was calculated as the variance of true genomic breeding values omitting relationships between individuals, and the residual variance was calculated accordingly to obtain a heritability of approximately 0.30.
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