Estimation of the relatedness coefficients from biallelic markers, application in plant mating designs.

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The problem of inferring the relatedness distribution between two individuals from biallelic marker data is considered. This problem can be cast as an estimation task in a mixture model: at each marker the latent variable is the relatedness state, and the observed variable is the genotype of the two individuals. In this model, only the prior proportions are unknown, and can be obtained via ML estimation using the...

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