Behaviour of the additive finite locus model.docVIP

Ricardo Pong-Wong* Abstract - A finite locus model to estimate additive variance and the breeding values was implemented using Gibbs sampling. Four different distributions for the size of the gene effects across the loci were considered: i) uniform with loci of different exponential, and iv) normal. Stochastic less. When assuming that all the loci have the same gene effects or when they were normally distributed, the additive variance estimate was the same regardless of the number of loci assumed in the model of analysis. The estimates were different from either the true simulated values o