Dear Abbas,
Your ASREML job is not correct enough for me to know what you want to do.
If you want to fit a simple repeatability model the job should be
Data of Rado to estimate heritability
IND !I
SIRE !M-99
SEX !M-99
HBOOK 4 !I
AGE
BW
DG
rado2.prn !MVINCLUDE
DG ~ mu SEX HBOOK !r IND
I do not understand why you have missing SEX information.
Typically Sex would appear as
SEX !A # if coded alphabettically Male Female
SEX !L Male Female # if coded 1 (for Males), 2 for Females.
If you wanted to estimate genetic variance and nongenetic variance,
the model might be
Data of Rado to estimate heritability
IND !I
SIRE !I !M-99
SEX !M-99
HBOOK 4 !I
AGE
BW
DG
rado2.prn !MVINCLUDE
DG ~ mu SEX HBOOK !r IND SIRE
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
Arthur Gilmour PhD
Principal Research Scientist (Biometrics)
NSW Agriculture
Orange Agricultural Institute
Forest Rd, ORANGE, 2800, AUSTRALIA
mailto:Arthur.Gilmour@agric.nsw.gov.au
fax: 02 6391 3899; 02 6391 3922 Australia +61
telephone work: 02 6391 3815; home: 02 6364 3288; mobile: 04 1964 7675
ASREML is available by anonymous ftp from pub/aar on ftp.res.bbsrc.ac.uk
or point your web browser at ftp://ftp.res.bbsrc.ac.uk/pub/aar/
A license is required for the current version. To obtain a license, run
ASREML in the target machine. It should write (C:/)ASRemlRegister.txt.
Complete its details and mailto:asreml@vsn-intl.com
To join the asreml discussion list, send the message
subscribe
mailto:asreml-request@chiswick.anprod.CSIRO.au
To send messages to the list, mailto:asreml@chiswick.anprod.CSIRO.au
Asreml list archive: http://www.chiswick.anprod.csiro.au/lists/asreml
<> <> <> <> <> <> <>
"Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called sons of God" Jesus; Matthew 5:9
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
--
Asreml mailinglist archive: http://www.chiswick.anprod.csiro.au/lists/asreml