of freedom for marker (co)variances</p></dd>


<dt>nue</dt>
<dd><p>is a scalar or vector of prior degrees of freedom for prior residual (co)variances</p></dd>


<dt>verbose</dt>
<dd><p>is a logical; if TRUE it prints more details during iteration</p></dd>


<dt>msize</dt>
<dd><p>number of markers used in compuation of sparseld</p></dd>


<dt>mask</dt>
<dd><p>is a vector or matrix of TRUE/FALSE specifying if marker should be ignored</p></dd>


<dt>GRMlist</dt>
<dd><p>is a list providing information about GRM