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Sib-parentage testing using molecular markers when parents are unknown.
Animal genetics - 1 Oct 2002
García D, Carleos C, Parra D, Cañón J
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The formulae for computing the so-called Sib Index using codominant alleles for (1) full-sib and (2) half-sib parentage are given. Hypothesis testing is based on the distribution of conditional likelihood ratio or Bayes' factor. Thresholds for rejecting the null hypothesis and P-values were obtained in function of the number of alleles and their frequency distributions. Simulations showed that a relatively low...
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