TABLE 5

Comparisons of predicted and estimated biases in estimated QTL effects and variances from our own F₂ simulation experiments at sample size 100

	Variance explained			Additive effect
Simulated conditions^{^a}	Simulated	Observed	Predicted^{^b}	Simulated	Observed	Predicted^{^c}	Average estimated location
10-30-100	3.00	15.29	16.0537	2.45	5.48	5.6410	10.29
10-63-100	6.25	16.93	16.5984	3.55	5.76	5.7328	10.34
10-95-100	9.50	17.75	17.3883	4.36	5.89	5.8466	10.05
40-30-100	0.75	14.62	15.6270	1.22	5.36	5.5436	10.12
40-63-100	1.56	15.01	15.7983	1.77	5.42	5.5999	10.39
40-95-100	2.40	15.50	15.9694	2.18	5.51	5.6236	10.10

↵a Numerical values denote the number of QTL-heritability-number of progeny.
↵b Using Equation 17.
↵c Using Equation 8.