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. 2008 Feb 5;116(6):845–857. doi: 10.1007/s00122-008-0718-2

Table 3.

Parameters that are required to run a simulation

Symbol Description
μQQ, μQq, μqq Genotypic values of QTL genotypes
n Number of segregating QTLs
Ve Error variance per observation
k Number of observations per plant
r Recombination frequency between QTL and nearest marker
VP Total phenotypic variance in the F2 population
fMM, fMm, fmm Frequencies at marker locus (possibly skewed)