Table 2.

Posterior means of parameters using Bayesian inference with$\widehat{\mathbf{\pi }}$= 0.995 ¹

Model 2	Estimated total phenotypic variance	Estimated additive genetic variance	Estimated residual variance	Estimated genomic heritability
Fixed effects (FE)	5.1984	4.6139	0.5844	0.8860
FE with KIT region	2.9747	2.4582	0.5166	0.8196
FE with PDGFRA region	2.6959	2.2043	0.4916	0.8117
FE with CORIN region	2.7168	2.2564	0.4604	0.8247

¹Posterior means from Bayesian analyses were conducted using BayesB procedures in GenSel with 51 000 iterations and the first 1000 iterations discarded as burn-in; variances are reported in squared units of degree of black; ² “fixed effects” refers to the final model for degree of black, which included fixed effects of sire, family nested within sire, sex, and season of photograph; additional models including “with” indicates the inclusion of candidate region as fixed effect using the breed of origin genotype specified.