TABLE 2.

True QTL location in centimorgans (cM) as well as posterior means and standard deviations of δ, μ, a, and σe2 obtained by the exact and two-step approaches for selected replicates of the simulation with 1500 effective individuals in the base population and a heritability of 0.05

Method	Replicate	True δ, cM	, cM	a	b	c
Exact	1	0.60	0.62 (±0.05)	0.00 (±0.09)	0.43 (±0.10)	0.91 (±0.07)
	2	0.42	0.44 (±0.24)	0.03 (±0.10)	0.21 (±0.12)	1.02 (±0.09)
	3	0.25	0.35 (±0.09)	−0.08 (±0.11)	0.37 (±0.12)	0.94 (±0.08)
	4	0.59	0.54 (±0.26)	0.00 (±0.11)	0.20 (±0.12)	1.03 (±0.09)
	5	0.38	0.39 (±0.22)	0.03 (±0.12)	0.28 (±0.15)	1.04 (±0.09)
	6	0.52	0.48 (±0.17)	0.06 (±0.13)	0.29 (±0.15)	1.08 (±0.09)
Two-step	1	0.60	0.66 (±0.04)	−0.02 (±0.10)	0.42 (±0.12)	0.91 (±0.07)
	2	0.42	0.51 (±0.29)	0.03 (±0.10)	0.20 (±0.11)	1.01 (±0.08)
	3	0.25	0.35 (±0.07)	−0.07 (±0.11)	0.37 (±0.15)	0.93 (±0.08)
	4	0.59	0.56 (±0.23)	0.00 (±0.10)	0.21 (±0.12)	1.02 (±0.09)
	5	0.38	0.52 (±0.19)	0.02 (±0.10)	0.24 (±0.14)	1.03 (±0.09)
	6	0.52	0.43 (±0.23)	0.04 (±0.11)	0.23 (±0.13)	1.07 (±0.09)

^aμ = 0.

^ba = 0.324.

^c.