http://www.gsejournal.org/comments The latest comments on all articles published by Genetics Selection Evolution 2009-11-12T07:17:30Z http://www.gsejournal.org/content/41/1/43/comments#375666 <p>A typo exists in Table 1. Correct pedigree is as follows: <br/>1 0 0 <br/>2 0 0 <br/>3 0 0 <br/>4 1 2 <br/>5 3 2 <br/>6 3 2 <br/>7 4 5 <br/>8 4 5 <br/> <br/>Sorry for any inconvenient. I thank Ross Whetten for finding this out. <br/> <br/>Andr&#233;s</p> Andres Legarra 2009-11-12T07:17:30Z http://www.gsejournal.org/content/41/1/43 Legarra et al. Genetics Selection Evolution 41 43 Tue Sep 29 16:07:28 BST 2009 http://www.gsejournal.org/content/41/1/2/comments#330622 <p>In the discussion section it is stated that &#8216;In simulations of breeding schemes and in cross-validation testing of GW-EBV, the large number of EBV evaluations required may make our fast algorithm the only means to implement BayesB type genome-wide breeding value estimation.&#8217; However, an alternative fast and non-MCMC based algorithm, is published by VanRaden (2008). This algorithm uses a mixture of two normal distributions as a prior. Given this prior, approximate genomic EBVs are obtained by modifying the variance ratio for every SNP in the mixed model equations, which are, apart from the modified variance ratio, equal to the BLUP equations for SNP effects.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Theo Meuwissen&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Reference:&lt;br&gt;VanRaden, PM (2008) Efficient Methods to Compute Genomic Predictions. J. Dairy Sci. 91:4414&#8211;4423.&lt;br&gt;</p> Theo Meuwissen 2009-01-20T16:42:15Z http://www.gsejournal.org/content/41/1/2 Meuwissen et al. Genetics Selection Evolution 41 2 Mon Jan 05 13:12:20 GMT 2009