Table 3.

Effective correlation (ρ) between individuals 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	0.9316	0.9511	0.9598	0.9650	0.9685	0.9711	0.9732	0.9748	0.9762	0.9773
2000	0.9520	0.9658	0.9719	0.9756	0.9781	0.9800	0.9814	0.9826	0.9835	0.9843
3000	0.9608	0.9721	0.9771	0.9801	0.9822	0.9837	0.9849	0.9858	0.9866	0.9873
4000	0.9662	0.9760	0.9803	0.9829	0.9847	0.9860	0.9870	0.9878	0.9885	0.9891
5000	0.9699	0.9786	0.9825	0.9848	0.9864	0.9875	0.9884	0.9892	0.9898	0.9903
6000	0.9725	0.9805	0.9840	0.9861	0.9876	0.9886	0.9895	0.9901	0.9907	0.9912
7000	0.9746	0.9820	0.9852	0.9872	0.9885	0.9895	0.9903	0.9909	0.9914	0.9918
8000	0.9762	0.9831	0.9862	0.9880	0.9893	0.9902	0.9909	0.9915	0.9920	0.9924
9000	0.9776	0.9841	0.9870	0.9887	0.9899	0.9908	0.9914	0.9920	0.9924	0.9928
10,000	0.9787	0.9849	0.9877	0.9893	0.9904	0.9912	0.9919	0.9924	0.9928	0.9932