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Variance and covariance of actual relationships between relatives at one locus.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Garcia-Cortes Luis Alberto, Legarra Andres, Chevalet Claude, Toro Miguel Angel
Abstract excerpt
The relationship between pairs of individuals is an important topic in many areas of population and quantitative genetics. It is usually measured as the proportion of the genome identical by descent shared by the pair and it can be inferred from pedigree information. But there is a variance in actual relationships as a consequence of mendelian sampling, whose general formula has not been developed. The goal of...
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