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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 5.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Genet. 2008 Sep 23;39(1):91–100. doi: 10.1007/s10519-008-9229-9

Table 1.

Simulation parameters for the bivariate data sets

Normally distributed bivariate data
Skewed bivariate data
Trait 1 Trait 2 Trait 1 Trait 2
QTL effects (proportions of variance)
 Ch 4 5 0 25 0
 Ch 10 30 20 15 20
 Ch 12 0 15 15 15
Additive genetic effects (proportions of variance)
 A1 5 15 5 15
 A2 20 0 0 0
Non-shared environmental effects (proportions of variance)
 E1 40 0 40 0
 E2 0 50 0 50
Skew following transformation −1 −2
Kurtosis following transformation 1 4.5