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Table 1 Summary of the scenarios used in the simulations

From: Bayesian neural networks with variable selection for prediction of genotypic values

 

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Explanation

Var(A)

Var(D)

Var(E)

Base

300

Default scenario

1.0

0.0

0.0

\(S_{10}\)

10

Very sparse

1.0

0.0

0.0

\(S_{100}\)

100

Sparse

1.0

0.0

0.0

\(S_{1000}\)

1000

Dense

1.0

0.0

0.0

\(D_{\text {medium}}\)

300

Medium dominance

0.854

0.161

0.0

\(D_{\text {extreme}}\)

300

Extreme dominance

0.636

0.386

0.0

\(E_{A}\)

300

Additive \(\times\) additive epistasis

0.657

0.0

0.366

\(E_{C}\)

300

Complementary epistasis

0.658

0.225

0.116

\(E_{I}\)

300

Interaction epistasis

0.896

0.0

0.127

  1. The rightmost columns contain the average proportions of additive, dominance, and epistatic variance in the replicate genotypes. In all scenarios, the broad sense heritability is \(H^2=50\%\)