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Table 2 Moments of genotypes’ distributions depending on genotype codification

From: Approximated prediction of genomic selection accuracy when reference and candidate populations are related

Expectations

Genotype codification

x tim  = a tim  − 2p tm

x tim  = (a tim  − 2p tm )/σ tm

E[X im ]

0

0

E[X 2 im ]

σ 2m

1

E[X 4 im ]

σ 2m

1/σ 2m

E[X im X jm ]

2a ij σ 2m

2a ij

E[X im X 3 jm ]

\( \frac{1}{2}\alpha_{ij}^{13} \sigma_{\text{m}}^{2} - \frac{1}{4}\gamma_{ij}^{13} \sigma_{\text{m}}^{4} \)

\( \frac{1}{2}\alpha_{ij}^{13} /\sigma_{\text{m}}^{2} - \frac{1}{4}\gamma_{ij}^{13} \)

E[X 2 im X 2 jm ]

\( \frac{1}{2}\alpha_{ij}^{22} \sigma_{\text{m}}^{2} - \frac{1}{4}\gamma_{ij}^{22} \sigma_{\text{m}}^{4} \)

\( \frac{1}{2}\alpha_{ij}^{22} /\sigma_{\text{m}}^{2} - \frac{1}{4}\gamma_{ij}^{22} \)