Table 3. MSE of the estimated variance components.

Prior	5 QTL			50 QTL
	MSE ${\sigma }_e^2$	MSE ${\sigma }_a^2$	ρ	MSE ${\sigma }_e^2$	MSE ${\sigma }_a^2$	ρ
Uncorrelated P1	0.00092	0.00116	0.974	0.00133	0.00358	0.964
Correlated P2	0.00090	0.00575	0.916	0.00042	0.00277	0.943
Adaptive P3	0.00056	0.01849	0.880	0.00069	0.02758	0.889
Adaptive P4	0.00060	0.02581	0.862	0.00047	0.03698	0.874

Correlation (ρ) between the predicted and simulated genetic values; 10-fold cross-validation (size of training set $n=1000$). ${\sigma }_e^2$, residual variance; ${\sigma }_a^2$, additive genetic variance.