Table 2.

Scenarios used to evaluate sensitivity of predictive accuracy to the number of causative OTU

Scenario	Abbreviation	${\mathit{N}}_{\mathit{QTN}}$	${\mathit{N}}_{\mathit{OTU}}$	${\mathit{N}}_{\mathit{OTU}\left(\mathit{g}\right)}$	$r^2$	$h^2$	$b^2$
Joint	J10	100	10	0	0.50	0.25	0.25
	J100	100	100	0	0.50	0.25	0.25
	J250	100	250	0	0.50	0.25	0.25
Recursive	R10	100	10	5	0.50	0.25	0.25
	R100	100	100	50	0.50	0.25	0.25
	R250	100	250	125	0.50	0.25	0.25

Symbols are the same as in Table 1

Causative OTU and SNPs were randomly sampled