Table 2.

Minimum detectable QTL ($h_{QTL}^2$) for a population with variable sample sizes (n) and polygenic contribution (λ) when there are 100k markers evenly distributed on a 30 Morgan genome

Sample size (n)	Size of polygene (λ)
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1000	0.02083	0.01437	0.01104	0.00900	0.00762	0.00663	0.00588	0.00529	0.00481	0.00442
2000	0.01032	0.00704	0.00537	0.00435	0.00367	0.00318	0.00280	0.00251	0.00228	0.00209
3000	0.00685	0.00465	0.00353	0.00286	0.00240	0.00208	0.00183	0.00164	0.00148	0.00136
4000	0.00512	0.00346	0.00263	0.00212	0.00178	0.00154	0.00136	0.00121	0.00110	0.00100
5000	0.00408	0.00276	0.00209	0.00169	0.00142	0.00122	0.00107	0.00096	0.00087	0.00079
6000	0.00340	0.00229	0.00173	0.00140	0.00117	0.00101	0.00089	0.00079	0.00072	0.00066
7000	0.00291	0.00196	0.00148	0.00119	0.00100	0.00086	0.00076	0.00068	0.00061	0.00056
8000	0.00254	0.00171	0.00129	0.00104	0.00087	0.00075	0.00066	0.00059	0.00053	0.00049
9000	0.00226	0.00152	0.00115	0.00092	0.00077	0.00067	0.00059	0.00052	0.00047	0.00043
10,000	0.00203	0.00136	0.00103	0.00083	0.00069	0.00060	0.00053	0.00047	0.00042	0.00039