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An improvement on the maximum likelihood reconstruction of pedigrees from marker data.
Heredity - 1 Aug 2013
Wang J
Abstract excerpt
Many methods have been proposed to reconstruct the pedigree of a sample of individuals from their multilocus marker genotypes. These methods, like those in other fields of statistical inferences, may suffer from both type I (falsely related) and type II (falsely unrelated) errors. In sibship reconstruction, type I errors come from the spurious fusion of two or more small sibships into a single sibship, and type...
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