Figure 5.

The results of exploratory BSA and IM simulations are shown in which one or more experimental variables were manipulated. (A) Increasing the total number of generations in the experiment reduces the median centimorgan distance between the true QTL and the observed peak. (B) A broad optimal range of selection proportion exists for the focal BSA and IM scenarios. (C) Scaling up the experimental population size (and hence the number of phenotyped individuals), along with the sequencing depth, leads to improved statistical performance.