Table 2. Estimates of statistical genetic effects (to the left of each cell) and components of the genetic variance (to the right) for an epistatic QTL for growth rate pair in a Red junglefowl×White leghorn layer intercross [21] using four different models.
| Vector of genetic effects, E, and components of variance associated to each of the genetic effects | |||||||||
| Model | μ1 | αA | δA | αB | δB | αα | αδ | δα | δδ |
| NOIA | 269.49 | 169 | 1.00 | 0.45 | 6.74 | 11.28 | 4.47 | 9.75 | −11.75 | 34.32 | 9.67 | 20.78 | −20.30 | 46.66 | 8.22 | 8.18 | −24.80 | 37.87 |
| G2A | 269.32 | 164 | 1.18 | 0.64 | 7.00 | 12.25 | 4.15 | 8.43 | −10.74 | 28.66 | 9.68 | 20.83 | −20.21 | 46.28 | 8.28 | 8.35 | −24.80 | 38.19 |
| F2 | 269.68 | 177 | 1.53 | 1.07 | 7.44 | 13.84 | 4.90 | 11.80 | −11.15 | 31.08 | 10.48 | 24.76 | −19.70 | 44.56 | 9.50 | 11.07 | −24.80 | 38.44 |
| F∞ | 265.23 | 581 | 11.38 | 59.46 | 19.84 | 212.83 | 0.15 | 0.01 | 1.25 | 0.80 | 10.48 | 24.76 | −19.70 | 90.72 | 9.50 | 23.94 | −24.80 | 169.37 |
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The variances in this column are the total genetic variances computed as the sum of the components of variance given in the rest of the columns.