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

Table 5 Posterior means and 95% HPD intervals for the dispersion parameters pertaining to a reduced SEM with causal structure C

Parameter^a	Posterior mean	95% HPD Interval	Parameter^a	Posterior mean	95% HPD Interval
$σ_{e_{1}}^{2}$	0.33	[0.26, 0.40]	$σ_{g_{1}}^{2}$	0.46	[0.36, 0.58]
$r_{e_{1} e_{2}}$	0	-	$r_{g_{1} g_{2}}$	0.45	[0.31, 0.58]
$r_{e_{1} e_{3}}$	0	-	$r_{g_{1} g_{3}}$	0.13	[-0.05, 0.30]
$r_{e_{1} e_{4}}$	-0.27	[-0.41, -0.13]	$r_{g_{1} g_{4}}$	0.64	[0.51, 0.77]
$r_{e_{1} e_{5}}$	0	-	$r_{g_{1} g_{5}}$	0.04	[-0.19, 0.27]
$σ_{e_{2}}^{2}$	195.78	[155.99, 235.96]	$σ_{g_{2}}^{2}$	185.36	[130.23, 244.55]
$r_{e_{2} e_{3}}$	-0.12	[-0.22, -0.02]	$r_{g_{2} g_{3}}$	0.02	[-0.22, 0.26]
$r_{e_{2} e_{4}}$	0	-	$r_{g_{2} g_{4}}$	0.58	[0.45, 0.70]
$r_{e_{2} e_{5}}$	0.01	[0.00, 0.03]	$r_{g_{2} g_{5}}$	0.19	[-0.05, 0.43]
$σ_{e_{3}}^{2}$	35.28	[29.94, 40.69]	$σ_{g_{3}}^{2}$	13.20	[7.91, 18.99]
$r_{e_{3} e_{4}}$	0	-	$r_{g_{3} g_{4}}$	0.02	[-0.18, 0.23]
$r_{e_{3} e_{5}}$	-0.12	[-0.20, -0.03]	$r_{g_{3} g_{5}}$	-0.12	[-0.41, 0.18]
$σ_{e_{4}}^{2}$	0.74	[0.61, 0.87]	$σ_{g_{4}}^{2}$	0.54	[0.37, 0.72]
$r_{e_{4} e_{5}}$	0	-	$r_{g_{4} g_{5}}$	0.03	[-0.21, 0.29]
$σ_{e_{5}}^{2}$	31.12	[27.52, 34.91]	$σ_{g_{5}}^{2}$	5.18	[2.81, 7.84]

^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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