Searching for phenotypic causal networks involving complex traits: an application to European quail

Table 2 Posterior means and 95% HPD intervals for the dispersion parameters pertaining to a MTAM

Parameter^a	Posterior mean	95% HPD Interval	Parameter^a	Posterior mean	95% HPD Interval
$σ_{e_{1}}^{2}$	0.32	[0.25, 0.40]	$σ_{g_{1}}^{2}$	0.47	[0.36, 0.59]
$r_{e_{1} e_{2}}$	0.03	[-0.12, 0.19]	$r_{g_{1} g_{2}}$	0.41	[0.22, 0.59]
$r_{e_{1} e_{3}}$	0.07	[-0.05, 0.20]	$r_{g_{1} g_{3}}$	0.09	[-0.14, 0.31]
$r_{e_{1} e_{4}}$	-0.24	[-0.40, -0.08]	$r_{g_{1} g_{4}}$	0.64	[0.50, 0.77]
$r_{e_{1} e_{5}}$	--0.07	[-0.17, 0.04]	$r_{g_{1} g_{5}}$	0.12	[-0.14, 0.38]
$σ_{e_{2}}^{2}$	210.74	[164.90, 256.86]	$σ_{g_{2}}^{2}$	165.81	[106.42, 228.82]
$r_{e_{2} e_{3}}$	-0.13	[-0.25, -0.02]	$r_{g_{2} g_{3}}$	0.06	[-0.20, 0.31]
$r_{e_{2} e_{4}}$	0.12	[0.00, 0.25]	$r_{g_{2} g_{4}}$	0.48	[0.29, 0.67]
$r_{e_{2} e_{5}}$	0.01	[-0.09, 0.10]	$r_{g_{2} g_{5}}$	0.22	[-0.06, 0.49]
$σ_{e_{3}}^{2}$	35.19	[29.82, 40.53]	$σ_{g_{3}}^{2}$	13.42	[8.11, 19.16]
$r_{e_{3} e_{4}}$	-0.08	[-0.19, 0.03]	$r_{g_{3} g_{4}}$	0.10	[-0.16, 0.35]
$r_{e_{3} e_{5}}$	-0.12	[-0.20, -0.04]	$r_{g_{3} g_{5}}$	-0.11	[-0.40, 0.18]
$σ_{e_{4}}^{2}$	0.79	[0.64, 0.93]	$σ_{g_{4}}^{2}$	0.48	[0.30, 0.67]
$r_{e_{4} e_{5}}$	-0.01	[-0.10, 0.08]	$r_{g_{4} g_{5}}$	0.09	[-0.21, 0.37]
$σ_{e_{5}}^{2}$	31.02	[27.30, 34.78]	$σ_{g_{5}}^{2}$	5.51	[2.95, 8.31]

^a $σ_{g_{j}}^{2}$ = additive genetic variance of trait j; $r_{g_{j} g_{j^{'}}}$ = additive genetic correlation between traits j and j', $σ_{e_{j}}^{2}$ = residual variance of trait j; $r_{e_{j} e_{j^{'}}}$ = residual correlation between traits j and j' (j, j' = 1 (BW), 2 (W35), 3 (AFE), 4 (AEW), 5 (NE))

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