Why Breeding Values Estimated Using Familial Data Should Not Be Used for Genome-Wide Association Studies

Supporting Information for Ekine et al., 2014

Files in this Data Supplement:

  • Supporting Information - Tables S1-S2 and Files S1-S2 (PDF, 323 KB)
  • Table S1 - Type 1 error and power using tabulated and empirical thresholds for simulations based on a commercial pig pedigree using 2 or 5 generations of pedigree information. (PDF, 302 KB)
  • Table S2 - Tabulated (Tab) and empirical (Emp) power for different association analyses across a range of relative QTL effects and heritabilities (h2) in simulated human and pig pedigrees. (PDF, 308 KB)
  • File S1 - Excel file with all the different pedigrees that were used for simulation (.xlsx, 254 KB)
  • File S2 - An example of the script file that was used to run the genedrop simulation within MORGAN (.txt, 1 KB)