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A fast, powerful method for detecting identity by descent.
American journal of human genetics - 11 Feb 2011
Browning Brian L, Browning Sharon R
Abstract excerpt
We present a method, fastIBD, for finding tracts of identity by descent (IBD) between pairs of individuals. FastIBD can be applied to thousands of samples across genome-wide SNP data and is significantly more powerful for finding short tracts of IBD than existing methods for finding IBD tracts in such data. We show that fastIBD can detect facets of population structure that are not revealed by other methods. In...
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