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An ABC estimate of pedigree error rate: application in dog, sheep and cattle breeds.
Animal genetics - 1 Jun 2012
Leroy G, Danchin-Burge C, Palhiere I, Baumung R, Fritz S, Mériaux J C, Gautier M
Abstract excerpt
On the basis of correlations between pairwise individual genealogical kinship coefficients and allele sharing distances computed from genotyping data, we propose an approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) approach to assess pedigree file reliability through gene-dropping simulations. We explore the features of the method using simulated data sets and show precision increases with the number of markers. An...
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