[R-sig-ME] MCMCglmm

[David Duffy]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Alex Safari wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Running a simple animal model with MCMCglmm  the following error occurred.
> Error in inverse (pedigree, nodes = nodes, scale = scale) :
> individuals appearing as dams but not in pedigree
> I run this data with ASReml and it is working ok.

I believe ASReml might automatically add in the missing pedigree members 
(who appear as a parent but do not have their own record in your 
pedigree).  MCMCglmm's Ainverse() requires the pedigree to be 
complete.

Cheers, David Duffy.

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