Table 2. Methods evaluated.

Abbreviation	Marker dataa	Descriptionb	References
LO	Multiallelic	Extended method-of-moments	Loiselle et al. (1995); Huang et al. (2014)
RI	Multiallelic	Extended method-of-moments	Ritland (1996); Huang et al. (2014)
WE	Multiallelic	Extended method-of-moments	Weir (1996); Huang et al. (2014)
MM	Multiallelic	Method-of-moments	Huang et al. (2014)
ML	Multiallelic	Maximum-likelihood estimator	Huang et al. (2015)
VR	Biallelic	Extended relationship matrix	VanRaden (2008); Ashraf et al. (2016)
PD	Biallelic	Extended pseudo-diploid relationship matrix	Yang et al. (2010); Slater et al. (2016)
FA	Biallelic	Full-autopolyploid relationship matrix	Slater et al. (2016)

^aMultiallelic methods are also biallelic methods.

^bExtended methods refer to methodologies originally proposed by the first reference and later extended for autopolyploids in the second reference.