The preliminary assumption test reported that the skewness (−0.306 ~ 0.323) and kurtosis (−0.592 ~ 0.707) were all within the range of ±1, indicating that our dataset reached an acceptable normality (Meyers et al.2016). Moreover, there was no multicollinearity between the independent vari...
distribution. Indeed, this is what we observe (Supplementary Data2), indicating power for discovery and appropriate Type I Error control. The remaining conditions were specified such that the pattern of effects for a gene on the given traits in the population increasingly deviated from the expectati...