Table 1 Estimates of additive and dominance variance components obtained using REMLF90 for models MA, MG and MGD

Trait

MA

MG

MGD

${\mathit{\sigma }}_{\mathit{A}}^{\mathbf{2}}$

${\mathit{\sigma }}_{\mathit{A}}^{\mathbf{2}}$

${\mathit{\sigma }}_{\mathit{A}}^{\mathbf{2}}$

${\mathit{\sigma }}_{\mathit{D}}^{\mathbf{2}}$

${\mathit{\sigma }}_{\mathit{E}}^{\mathbf{2}}$

$\frac{{\mathit{\sigma }}_{\mathit{D}}^{\mathbf{2}}}{{\mathit{\sigma }}_{\mathit{A}}^{\mathbf{2}}+{\mathit{\sigma }}_{\mathit{D}}^{\mathbf{2}}}$