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. 2016 Nov 16;118(1):42–51. doi: 10.1038/hdy.2016.98

Table 1. Default simulation parameter values.

Parameter Quantitative trait simulation (default values)
Ne 1000
Number of contributing loci 5 (equal contribution)
Starting allele frequencies All 0.05 (randomly assigned to founder haplotypes)
Effect sizes across loci Equal (sum of effect sizes across loci is 1, that is, effect sizes of 0.1 of each allele)
Optimum trait value 0.4 (40% of the possible contributing variation)
Fitness landscape and selection strength Gaussian fitness function with μ=optimum trait value, standard deviation sd=0.2 and minimum, maximum fitness between 0.5 and 1.5 (latter specifies the selection strength)
Genotype-phenotype translation Heritability of 1, that is, 1:1 mapping from genotype to phenotype
Recombination Full recombination between contributing loci