Re: Format of pedigree data in BLUP-analysis

Dear Christof,

YES.
The NRM matrix must incorporate all the individuals with data
as well as the know parents of those individuals.

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 09:40 +0100, Christof Pietsch wrote:
> Dear all,
> I'd like to know, if entries with no pedigree information but with
> phenotypes have to be incorporated in the pedigree-data for the
> calculation of the numerator relationship matrix in a BLUP-analysis
> using the VPEDIGREE-directive.
> Thank you very much in advance!
> Christof
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