Summary of simulation studies comparing estimates of quantitative genetics parameters using pedigree-free methods.

1The column “Method” is the same as described for Table 1, with the additional category “Ped” that stands for pedigree-based animal models. Numbers in italics indicate that we report the correlation with the simulated heritability (corr) rather than the bias.2Method used to estimate pairwise kinship coefficients using molecular markers: L = Loiselle [20]; UAR = raw unified additive relationship (estimator of the genome-wide relationship between individuals) [14]; SA = % of shared alleles [135]; pedigree = ΦA.