Comparison of REML and Gibbs sampling estimates of multi-trait genetic parameters in Scots pine |
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Authors: | Patrik Waldmann Tore Ericsson |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, 901 83 Umeå, Sweden;(2) Forestry Research Institute of Sweden (Skogforsk), Box 3, 918 21 Sävar, Sweden |
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Abstract: | ![]() Multi-trait (co)variance estimation is an important topic in plant and animal breeding. In this study we compare estimates obtained with restricted maximum likelihood (REML) and Bayesian Gibbs sampling of simulated data and of three traits (diameter, height and branch angle) from a 26-year-old partial diallel progeny test of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). Based on the results from the simulated data we can conclude that the REML estimates are accurate but the mode of posterior distributions from the Gibbs sampling can be overestimated depending on the level of the heritability. The mean and median of the posteriors were considerably higher than the expected values of the heritabilities. The confidence intervals calculated with the delta method were biased downwardly. The highest probablity density (HPD) interval provides a better interval estimate, but could be slightly biased at the lower level. Similar differences between REML and Gibbs sampling estimates were found for the Scots pine data. We conclude that further simulation studies are needed in order to evaluate the effect of different priors on (co)variance components in the genetic individual model. |
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