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Two molecular measures of relatedness based on haplotype sharing.
BMC bioinformatics - 11 Nov 2015
Edwards David
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Measuring the extent of shared ancestry between individuals or organisms is important in many fields, including forensic science, conservation genetics and animal breeding. The traditional approach is to calculate the expected degree of relatedness between individuals in a pedigree. This assumes that the founders of the pedigree are non-inbred and unrelated to each other, which is rarely the case. In...
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