In ASReml, the probability of selfing is declared after the pedigree file using the !SELF s, qualifier where s is the probability from 0 to 1. In the following example, the qualifier !SELF s is used to tell ASReml that probability of selfing is 0.1 in the pine provenance data. The same model was run for selfing probabilities 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 and 1 to demonstrate how the selfing probability affects the variance components estimates.
Code example 4.5: Selfing effect on genetic variance for pine half-‐sib progeny test data
(Code4-‐7_Selfing.as)