Identification of distant family relationships.

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp418

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Identification of distant family relationships.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 15 Sept 2009

Skare Øivind, Sheehan Nuala, Egeland Thore

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MOTIVATION: Family relationships can be estimated from DNA marker data. Applications arise in a large number of areas including evolution and conservation research, genealogical research in human, plant and animal populations, forensic problems and genetic mapping via linkage and association analyses. Traditionally, likelihood-based approaches to relationship estimation have used unlinked genetic markers. Due to...

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Algorithms
Computational Biology
DNA
Likelihood Functions
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide

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PMID: 19584067
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp418

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