Equivalence of multibreed animal models and hierarchical Bayes analysis for maternally influenced traits

Background: It has been argued that multibreed animal models should include a heterogeneous covariance structure. However, the estimation of the [co]variance components is not an easy task, because these parameters can not be factored out from the inverse of the additive genetic covariance matrix. A...

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