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. 2009 Jan 5;41(1):3. doi: 10.1186/1297-9686-41-3

Table 2.

Means, standard deviations (s.d.) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of the Bootstrap distribution of Spearman correlations between predicted and observed phenotypes in the testing set

Whole genome methods
Method Mean s.d. CI (95%)

E-BLUP 0.11 0.13 (-0.13, 0.35)
Bayes A 0.27 0.12 (0.04, 0.49)
RKHS 0.27 0.12 (0.03, 0.50)

Information gain using 2 classes (400 pre-selected SNPs) + RKHS

Quantile Mean s.d. CI (95%)

0.15 0.33 0.12 (0.09, 0.56)
0.20 0.32 0.11 (0.10, 0.53)
0.25 0.36 0.11 (0.13, 0.57)
0.30 0.19 0.12 (-0.05, 0.42)
0.35 0.35 0.11 (0.12,0.55)
0.40 0.33 0.11 (0.10, 0.53)

Information gain using 3 classes (400 pre-selected SNPs) + RKHS

Quantile Mean s.d. CI (95%)

0.15 0.32 0.11 (0.10, 0.54)
0.20 0.24 0.13 (-0.01, 0.48)
0.25 0.39 0.11 (0.16, 0.59)
0.30 0.19 0.12 (-0.05, 0.42)
0.35 0.20 0.12 (-0.04, 0.43)
0.40 0.16 0.12 (-0.08, 0.40)

E-BLUP: Bayesian linear model; Bayes A: Bayesian regression on SNP; RKHS: reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces regression