Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of simulation schemes
| Historical Population (HP) | |
| Number of generation | 315 |
| Mutation rate for markers | 10−4 |
| Mutation rate for QTL | 10−4 |
| Founder Population (G0) | |
| Number of generation | 3 |
| Number of male | 1500 |
| Number of female | 15,000 |
| Selection Population (G3) | |
| Number of chromosomes | 10 |
| Length per chromosome (cM) | 100 |
| Number of markers per generation | 200,000/400,000 |
| Marker distribution | Evenly spaced |
| Number of QTL per generation | 100 |
| QTL distribution | Randomly distributed |
| QTL effect | Sampled from gamma with shape 0.4 |
| Heritability | 0.4 |
| Genetic variance | 0.4 |
| Residual variance | 0.6 |