Table 8.

Mean of the number of detected QTLs in each experiment

		Experiment 1	Experiment 2	Experiment 3
2-way	Cycle 0	6.35 ± 0.73	5.48 ± 0.63	6.51 ± 0.54
	Cycle 8	6.44 ± 0.65	5.37 ± 0.71	6.45 ± 0.66
8-way	Cycle 0	9.96 ± 0.69	7.63 ± 0.68	8.91 ± 0.72
	Cycle 6	10.68 ± 0.49	8.09 ± 0.64	9.67 ± 0.49
	Total number of QTLs	11	9	10

Experiments are based on the QTL data in Tables  4 and 5.

Values are the mean of 100 simulations.

In the two-way population, we defined detection of the QTL as a situation in which at least one of the four two-way populations produced a significant signal in the target region.