Fig. 7: Post hoc simulations exemplifying a spatial arrangement of the two alleles expected by the estimated self and neighbor effects, \(\hat \beta _1\) and \(\hat \beta _2\), on the leaf damage score of Arabidopsis thaliana. | Heredity

Fig. 7: Post hoc simulations exemplifying a spatial arrangement of the two alleles expected by the estimated self and neighbor effects, \(\hat \beta _1\) and \(\hat \beta _2\), on the leaf damage score of Arabidopsis thaliana.

From: Neighbor GWAS: incorporating neighbor genotypic identity into genome-wide association studies of field herbivory

Fig. 7

The population sum of the leaf damage \({\sum }y_i = \beta _1{\sum }x_i + \beta _2\mathop {\sum }\nolimits_{ < i,j > } x_ix_j\) was minimized using 1000 iterations of simulated annealing from a random distribution of two alleles in a 10 × 40 space.

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