Blocking Gibbs sampling in the mixed inheritance model using graph theory.docVIP

Mogens Sand? Lund Claus Skaanning Jensen a DIAS, Department of Breeding and Genetics, Research Centre Foulum, b P.O. Box 50, 8830 Tjele, Denmark Department of AUC, Computer Science, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7E., 9220 Aalborg 0, Denmark ’ Abstract - For the mixed inheritance model (MIM), including both a single locus a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm and a polygenic effect, we in which discrete genotypes of the single locus are sampled in large blocks from their joint conditional distribution. This requires exact calculation of the joint distribution of a given block, which can be ver