Parentage and sibship exclusions: higher statistical power with more family members.

doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800984

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Parentage and sibship exclusions: higher statistical power with more family members.

Heredity - 1 Aug 2007

Wang J

Abstract excerpt

Parentage exclusion probabilities are now routinely calculated in genetic marker-assisted parentage analyses to indicate the statistical power of the analyses achievable for a given set of markers, and to measure the informativeness of a set of markers for parentage inference. Previous formulas i...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Female
Gene Frequency
Genetic Markers
Genetics, Population
Male
Microsatellite Repeats
Models, Genetic
Models, Statistical
Pedigree
Reproduction

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