Kima says it is using fixed, founder-friendly terms (based on the Seedsummit documents) and will make an investment decision within 5 days of receiving an application.
"But you can never fix founders".
Consequently, the QTL around 490 cM is not a variance-controlling QTL but rather an effect of Growth 2 not being fixed within founder lines.
The "F2" option of GridQTL assumes that QTL alleles are fixed in founder populations, whereas the QTLMap option "mixture of full and half-sib family" assumes that there are as many QTL alleles as founders.
Together with protein modeling of FCA, which indicates that longer polyglutamine tracts could induce suboptimally mobile functional domains, we suggest that CAG expansions may form slightly deleterious alleles (with respect to protein function) that become fixed in founder populations.
The reason for this is that, if an F2 individual has an allele inherited from the domestic leghorn line, then the residual variance will be greater than if the allele was inherited from the Red Jungle Fowl line since Equation 2 assumes that the QTL alleles are fixed within founder lines.
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