Article
What should we weigh to estimate heterozygosity, alleles or loci?
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2006
Aparicio J M, Ortego J, Cordero P J
Abstract excerpt
The interest to study the effects of inbreeding in natural populations has increased in the last years. Several microsatellite-derived metrics have recently been developed to infer inbreeding from multilocus heterozygosity data without requiring detailed pedigrees that are difficult to obtain in open populations. Internal relatedness (IR) is currently the most widespread used index and its main attribute is that...
Topics
- Alleles
- Genetic Markers
- Heterozygote
- Homozygote
- Humans
- Linear Models
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Models, Genetic