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The Impact of Variable Degrees of Freedom and Scale Parameters in Bayesian Methods for Genomic Prediction in Chinese Simmental Beef Cattle

Fig 2

Histogram of the posterior samples for the scale parameters of the Inv-χ² prior on variances with a population size = 1000, QTL = 5, 50, 200, 500 and h² = 0.5 in BayesFA, BayesFB and Bayes FCπ, respectively.

The dotted lines represent the posterior 5, 50 and 95% quantiles.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154118.g002