The discover and date are given after each item. BW = Bruce Walsh

Error list sorted by date reported

INTRODUCTION

• pg xvi, ln 4: "van der Beck" should be "van der Beek"
  • (Peter Visscher, Edinburgh, 17 April 1998)

CHAPTER 2

• pg 23, 5 lines above Eq 2.5: change " E(z²) - mu" to "E(z²) - mu²"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 23, 1 ln above Eq 2.5 (typo) delete "(Example 2, Appendix 1),"
  • (Eric Anderson, University of Washington, 4 Jan 1999)

• pg 32, 2 ln3 above Eq 2.16 (typo) change sigma to sigma².
  • (Kevin Micallef,The Univerity of Queensland, 18 March 2003)

CHAPTER 3

• pg 36, line 2: change "p(x) = integral p(y | x) dy" to "p(x) = integral p(y, x) dy"
  • (Steve Iturria, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, 8 June 1998)

• pg 40, 2nd line of Figure caption: Change "Table 2.2" to "Table 2.1"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 40, 2nd line after Equation 3.13c, Change "Equation 3.13b" to "Equation 3.13c"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 45, ln 8 of Example 2: Change "interal" to "interval"
  • (Eric Anderson, University of Washington, 27 October 1998)

• page 45: two lines from the bottom. "As noted at the end of last chapter" should read "As noted at the end of the last chapter"
  • (Eric Anderson, University of Washington, 27 October 1998)

CHAPTER 4

• pg 62, line 10: Change "complete dominance of the B₁ allele" to "complete dominance of the B₂ allele"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 62, line 11: Change "the B₂ allele" to "the B₁ allele"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 70, Figure 4.8. the labels on the Y-axis for the case k=0 should go from 0 to 0.5 in 0.1 increments
  • (Bart Kempenaers, Max Planck Research Center for Ornithology, Seewiesen, 14 March 2000)

• Page 73: Example 4 For the case of pB=0.5, the dominance genetic variance component should be 0.0025 (instead of 0.0012) and the total genetic variance thus becomes 0.1765 (instead of 0.1752).
  • (Bart Kempenaers, Max Planck Research Center for Ornithology, Seewiesen, 13 March 2000)

• Page 74 : last line of the explanation for example 4. Should read "presented in Chapter 14" (Not Chapter 13 as stated)
  • (Bart Kempenaers, Max Planck Research Center for Ornithology, Seewiesen, 13 March 2000)

• pg 77, line above Equation 4.23b. This should read "In the former case, it reduces to" (i.e, for randon mating)
  • (Jim Holland, North Carolina State University , 21 Oct. 1999)

CHAPTER 5

• pg 84, table in Example 1.: the a and k values for P_MM and B_TT were switched, so that the values for P_MM should be a = 21.6, k = 0.06 and for P_TT should be a = 27.0, k = 0.33
  • (Diane Byers, Illinois State University, 20 April 1999)

• pg 89, line 3: change "j = U_M" to "l =U_M"
  • (John Sater, 13 May 1998)

• pg 89, 1st equation after header "Dominance Effects". Change P(ijkl | i,j = B_M) to P(ijkl | i,j = B_MM) [ ie the subscript M should be MM]
  • (BW 19 Feb 1998)

• pg 98, Example 3. The SE for Dhat for the Utah population should be 0.020, rather than 0.028
  • (Bart Kempenaers, Max Planck Research Center for Ornithology, Seewiesen, 27 March 2000)

CHAPTER 6

• Page 118 : 2nd paragraph, line 5: Rufous-collared sparrow (not ruffous)
  • (Bart Kempenaers, Max Planck Research Center for Ornithology, Seewiesen, 27 March 2000)

• Page 120 : line 1: Rufous-collared sparrow (not ruffous)
  • (Bart Kempenaers, Max Planck Research Center for Ornithology, Seewiesen, 27 March 2000)

CHAPTER 7

• pg 138, line -9 (2nd line of last paragraph). Change "female" to "male", so it now reads "Assuming the MALE is the heterogametic sex"
  • (Peter Visscher, Edinburgh, 30 March 1998)

• pg 175, line 2: Change "different" to "differ"
  • (Claus Ekstroem, University of Copenhagen, 4 Jan. 1999)

CHAPTER 8

• pg. 196. Equation 8.25c. the covariance matrix should be A V A^T instead of the the (incorrectly) listed value of A^T V A.
  • (Eric Anderson, University of Washington,16 May 2000)

CHAPTER 9

• pg 232, 3rd line from bottom: change "number of chromosomes" to haploid number of chromosomes"
  • (Pieter Wijngaarden, Leiden University, 20 May 1999)

• pg 236, 4 lines from bottom. Change "leptokurtic" to "positively skewed"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 237, line 3 of Example 5: change "Var[ zbar(P1) ] = 0.205 and Var[ zbar(P2) ] = 0.373" to "Var[ zbar(P1) ] = 0.373 and Var[ zbar(P2) ] = 0.205"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 237, line 4 of Example 5: change "Example 3" to "Example 4"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 238, 2nd line after equation in Example 5. Change "n=10" to "n=5.4"
  • (Sally Otto, University BC, 30 Nov 1998)

• pg 238, last line: change "(alpha^c_max)/2" to "(alpha^c_max)²/2"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 244, line 5 of first paragraph. Change "consider three approaches" to "consider two approaches"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

CHAPTER 11

• There is a numbering error in that there is no Table 11.3, so that the table numbering skips from Table 11.2 (page 309) to Table 11.4 (page 315). The references in the text are internally consistent, so the casual reader can ignore this error. However, to be formally correct, all references to Table 11.4 should be change to 11.3 and all references to 11.5 changed to Table 11.4
  • (John Sater, Washington DC, 4 June 1998)

• pg. 310, middle of page. In the definition of phi(y) for character state two, y_c1 should be less than or equal to y, not greater than or equal to y as is written.
  • (Jay Taylor, University of Arizona, 27 Feb 2000)

CHAPTER 13

• pg 373, fifth line from bottom: Change "German and German 1984" to "Geman and Geman 1984"
  • (David Henderson, University of Washington 31 Jan 2002)

• pg 376, second line from bottom: Change "Curtis and Stam1984 " to "Curtis and Sham"
  • (Suzanne Leal, Rockefeller University, 15 December 2000)

• pg 378, line 7: Change "we note than" to "we note that an"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

CHAPTER 14

• pg 395, 5 lines below Eq. 14.4 . Change e^-0.2 to e^-2*0.2
  • ( Mike Butterfield, SA Sugar Experiment Station, South Africa, 2 March 1999)

• pg 405, 4th line from bottom. Change "cogenic" to "congenic"
  • (Cynthia Ernst, NC State University, 14 April 1998)

• pg. 422, Equation 14.22 is incorrect. Simply use the standard expression for a normal 2 X 2 chi-sqaire test.
  • ( Ian.White, University of Edinburgh, 25 August 2003)

• pg. 425, 5th line of Figure 14.10 caption. change "measured" to "measure"
  • (John Sater, Washington DC, 4 June 1998)

• pg 426, ln 7: change "an element has inserted" to "an element has been inserted"
  • (John Sater, Washington DC, 4 June 1998)

• pg 426, 2nd line form bottom of third paragraph: Change "used estimate" to "used to estimate"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

CHAPTER 15

• There is a numbering error in that there is no Table 15.2, so that the table numbering skips from Table 15.1 (page 440) to Table 15.3 (page 479).
  • (John Sater, Washington DC, 15 June 1998)

• pg 445, (middle of page) change Luo and Wolliams 1993 to Luo and Woolliams 1993
  • (Jack J. Windig, Institute for Animal Science and Health, Lelystad The Netherlands, 17 Oct 2001)

• page 448: Pr(chi₁ >4.61)=0.032 (not 0.04 as in the book), so that the 1 LOD drop support is approximately a 97% CI. I believe (but don't have the paper here) that Mangin et al. (94) pointed this out. A 2 LOD interval is then a 99.8% CI, since Pr(chi₁>9.21) = 0.002.
  • (Peter Visscher, Edinburgh, 3 Feb 2003)

• pg 447, 6 lines from bottom: Change "a function of map position" to "a function of the map position"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 448. Equation 15.16 is missing a minus sign, and should read -log₁₀ ...
  • (J. C. Loredo-Osti, Dalhousie University, 2 March 1999)

• pg 452, 3 lines above Example 6: Change "that, dense" to "that dense"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 456, 5 lines from bottom (Typo): change "-ln(1-0.76²) = 14.27" to "-10 ln(1-0.76) = 14.27"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 457, line 4 (Typo): change "-10 ln(1-0.76²) / 4.61 = 3.10" to "-10 ln(1-0.76) / 4.61 = 3.10"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 468 , line 8: Change "-0.0221" to "0.0221"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 468 , line 26: Change "-0.2407" to "0.2047"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

CHAPTER 16

• pg. 493: Our verbal definition of PIC is incorrect. It should be the probability that the transmission from a (specific) parent can be determined unambiguously. A homozygous child from two identical) heterozygous parents clearly has the paternal/maternal origin of both is alleles unambiguously determined (and hence contributing to PIC).
  • (Stephanie Monks, University of Washington, 1 March 2000)

• pg. 496, Equation 16.7. The second half of the equation should read Pr(Q_j | M₁) = Pr(Q_i | M₂) = c (Q_j and Q_i were mistakenly reversed)
  • (John Sater, Washington DC, 27 July 1998)

• pg. 498, 3 lines below 16.12: "van der Beck" should be "van der Beek"
  • (Peter Visscher, Edinburgh, 17 April 1998)

• pg. 499, Equation 16.16. n should be replaced with (n/2).
  • (Jim Holland and Rohan Fernando, Iowa State University, 2 Dec 1998)

• pg. 500, Equation 16.17. [2 corrections] n should be replaced with (n/2) on the left-hand side, and sigma²_A/4 should be replaced by sigma²_A/2.
  • (Jim Holland and Rohan Fernando, Iowa State University, 2 Dec 1998)

• pg. 500, last line. The phrase "Combining this" is out of place and should be moved to the top of the page, so that it now reads "Combining this with Equations 16.10b..."
  • (1st reported by Stefano Leonardi, Oregon State University 5 March 1998; correct placement noted by John James, University of New South Wales, 17 March 1998)

• pg. 501, line6 of Figure 16.2: "van der Beck" should be "van der Beek"
  • (Peter Visscher, Edinburgh, 17 April 1998)

• pg. 501, line 6: "van der Beck" should be "van der Beek"
  • (Peter Visscher, Edinburgh, 17 April 1998)

• pg. 502, line 9: "van der Beck" should be "van der Beek"
  • (Peter Visscher, Edinburgh, 17 April 1998)

• pg. 505, line 10: "van der Beck" should be "van der Beek"
  • (Peter Visscher, Edinburgh, 17 April 1998)

• pg. 511, Equation 16.30: Strictly speaking, this covariance is conditional on R_ij and hence should read Cov(z_i,z_j| R_ij)
  • (J. C. Loredo-Osti, Dalhousie University, 30 April 1999)

• pg. 521 In both Equation 16.46a and 16.46b, the (1-2c_ij) term should be squared, giving (1-2c_ij)²
  • (Bruce Weir, NC State University, 1 April 1998)

• pg 523, ln 5: Change "Curtis and Stam" to "Curtis and Sham"
  • (Suzanne Leal, Rockefeller University, 15 December 2000)

• pg 525, 2nd parag, ln 9: Change "Curtis and Stam" to "Curtis and Sham"
  • (Suzanne Leal, Rockefeller University, 15 December 2000)

CHAPTER 17

• Ch. 17, p. 539, line 16. Instead of "The single offspring-midparent regression..." it should read "The single offspring-midparent CORRELATION...".
  • (Seppo Ruotsalainen, Forest Research Institute, Punkaharju, Finland. 1 July 2001)

• pg. 541: Equation 17.5c In the right-most equation, Zo bar_i should simply be Zo_i.
  • (Peter Tait, McMaster University. 22 November 1999)

• pg. 546, Equation 17.11a. The denominator should be 4N, not N.
  • (Bart Kempenaers, Max Planck Research Center for Ornithology, Seewiesen, 16 May 2000)

CHAPTER 18

• pg. 561, Equation 18.19. Correction and clarification. Equation 18.19 should read Var(MS) = 2 MS²2/(df + 2). In other words, an ESTIMATE of the true variance of MS [ sigma²2(MS) ] is approximately given by a function of square of the observed MS.
  • (Peter Visscher, Edinburgh, 9 April 1998)

• pages 568, last paragraph of Example 2 (line 6) :
  1. "F_L = F_19,151,0.025" should read "F_U = F_19,151,0.025"
  2. "F_U = F_151,19,0.025" should read "F_L = F_151,19,0.025"
  • (Bart Kempenaers, Max Planck Research Center for Ornithology, Seewiesen, 15 Jan 2001)

• pg. 574, Table 18.3. the expression for k3 should read k3 = 1/(N-1)* (T- Sum(ni²/T). (The change being ni²2/T rather than ni²/N)
  • (Patric David, CERE-CNRS, Montpeillier, France, 30 April 1999)

• pg. 576. Equation 18.36 is in error. The correct version should read
  • F = (c_dMS_d - c_sMS_s)/MS_e
  • where
    • c_d =( k₂ + k₃)/ ( k₂ + k₃-k₁)
    • c_s = k₁ / ( k₂ + k₃-k₁)
  • (Patrice David, CERE-CNRS, Montpeillier, France, 24 Sept 1999)

• pages 578-579, Example 3. Several math errors in computing the standard errors. The correct values (using Equation 18.38a) are
  1. Var( t_PHS ) = 0.00125 (instead of 0.0098)
  2. SE( t_PHS ) = 0.035 (instead of 0.099)
  3. Var( t_FS ) = 0.00368 (instead of 0.0127)
  4. SE( t_FS ) = 0.06 (instead of 0.113)
  Likewise, using Equation 18.37b,
  1. SE( t_FS ) = 0.042 (instead of 0.037)
  • (Bart Kempenaers, Max Planck Research Center for Ornithology, Seewiesen, 14 March 2000; independently reported by Richard King, Northern Illinois University, 24 August 2000)

CHAPTER 20

• pg. 623. Vertical caption on Figure 20.4 should read "sigma_{P_2,r}(i)" rather than "sigma_{P_2}r(i)". Likewise, "sigma² _r(i)" should instead read "sigma² _r(i)"
  • (John Sater, Washington DC, 27 July 1998)

CHAPTER 21

• pg. 641, 4 lines from bottom. "see Chapter 14" should read "see Chapter 15"
  • (BW 2 February 1998)

CHAPTER 22

• pg. 667, line 3 of first full paragraph. Equation 22.8 should be Equation 22.9
  • (James Lee, UC Berkeley, 1 March 2006)

• pg. 677, Table 22.2. The expected MS for genotype (G) has an extra '+' symbol.
  • (John Sater, Washington DC, 27 July 1998)

CHAPTER 23

• pg. 700, 7 lines below Eq. 23.9e. Drop the lead parenthesis before "However"
  • (John Sater, Washington DC, 27 July 1998)

• pg. 709, right below Figure 23.5, the phrase "G is the matrix ...and T denotes a transpose" is repeated
  • (John Sater, Washington DC, 27 July 1998)

CHAPTER 24

• pg. 721, Table 24.1. The first line in the Male-Male relationships section gives for Father-son a Phi_xy of 1/4, but this should be 0.
  • (Jack Windig, Stockholm University ,15 Jan 1999)

CHAPTER 25

• pg. 734, Table 25.1 contains numerous errors, see the pdf copy of the corrected table
  • (Jim Fry, University of Rochester 9 May 2001 )

• pg. 738, 5th line from bottom: Change "from Equation 25.1b" to "from Equation 25.1c"
  • (Jeff Hard, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, 30 March 1998)

CHAPTER 26

• pg 764 (Example 8), 4th line (ignoring Equations): A₅₅ equals 1.125, not 1.25 as listed.
  • (Tormod Ådnoey, Institutt for husdyrfag, NLH, Norway, 17 October 2000)

• pg 764 (Example 8), For the A matrix at the end of the example, the elements A₂₅ and A₅₂ should be 1/4, not 1/2 as listed.
  • (Tormod Ådnoey, Institutt for husdyrfag, NLH, Norway, 17 October 2000)

CHAPTER 27

• pg. 796, Example 4:

1. The two sigma's [the variance components sigma²_A(k) and sigma²_E(k)] should have their positions swapped in the vector theta, so that the first (top) element should be sigma²_E(k) and the second (bottom) element becomes sigma²_A(k).

2. The lower left element in the Hessian matrix H should be tr(PPA) - 2yPPAPy, not tr(PAP) - 2yPAPPy as listed

• (Claus Ekstroem, University of Copenhagen, 14 Jan. 1999)

APPENDIX 1

• pg 811, 2 lines after Equation A.17a: Change "A1.6a" to "A1.6"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 813, first equation of Example 4: change "beta_n" to "alpha_n"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 814-5. Equation A1.10b n should be (n-1). This results in three other errors.
  1. In the second (unnumbered) equation on pg 815, n --> (n-1)

  2. In the next line, n [Var(x)]²/(n+2) --> (n-1) [Var(x)]²/(n+1)

  3. In Equation A1.10c, n+2 --> n+1
  • (Peter Visscher, Edinburgh, 9 July 1998)

• pg 816, 3 lines from bottom: change "optimun" to "optimum"
  • (Izak Bos, Wageningen, 14 January 2000)

• pg 818, 1st line of Eq. A1.19b. The minus sign on the (mu_n/mu_v²) term should be deleted. The final result in A1.19b is, however, correct.
  • (Esther Davies, Edinburgh, 15 June 1998)

APPENDIX 2

• pg 827, equation in middle of page. Change "G_o = H_p + H_m" to "G_o = H_f + H_m".
  • (Leif Peterson, Baylor, 9 November 1998)

APPENDIX 3

• pg. 843. The chi-square goodness-of-fit statistics in Table A3.1 are, strictly speaking, correct, but totally impractical, as one uses the sum of squared residuals to estimate the residual variance, sigma²_e.
  • (BW 25 August 2003)

APPENDIX 4

• pg. 861, line 2: "Equation A3.11c" should read "Equation A3.11b"
  • (BW 29 December 1997)

• pg 865 2nd line after Eq. A4.22c: interations should be iterations
  • (Jack J. Windig, Institute for Animal Science and Health, Lelystad The Netherlands, 31 Oct 2001)

APPENDIX 5