A new approach fits multivariate genomic prediction models efficiently

Table 1 Summary of methods used in the simulations

	TVGS	PEGS	THGS	UV-THGS	REML
Effect type in the model	Marker	Marker	Marker	Marker	Polygenic
Multivariate	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
(Co)variance estimation^a	True values	PE	TH	TH	REML
Orthogonalization	No	No	No	No	Yes

^aPE pseudo expectation, TH tilde-hat, REML restricted maximum likelihood, TVGS true-value Gauss–Seidel, PEGS pseudo expectation Gauss–Seidel, THGS tilde-hat Gauss–Seidel, UV-THGS univariate-tilde-hat Gauss–Seidel

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