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Table 1 Simulated scenarios

From: QTL fine mapping with Bayes C(π): a simulation study

Number of QTL

10

100

1000

Number of large QTL

1

5

50

Number of medium QTL

2

20

200

Number of small QTL

7

75

750

Heritability

0.1

0.4

0.7

0.1

0.4

0.7

0.1

0.4

0.7

Variance of large QTL

2.86

11.45

20.05

0.35

1.40

2.45

0.04

0.14

0.25

Variance of medium QTL

0.95

3.82

6.68

0.12

0.47

0.82

0.01

0.05

0.08

Variance of small QTL

0.32

1.27

2.23

0.04

0.16

0.27

0.00

0.02

0.03

  1. Number of large, medium, and small QTL, with the variance explained by each QTL; the phenotypic variance was 100 and, together, the simulated QTL explained 70% of the genetic variance.