Unbiased Relatedness Estimation in Structured Populations
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Unbiased relatedness estimation in structured populations.
Knowledge of the genetic relatedness between individuals is important in many research areas in quantitative genetics, conservation genetics, forensics, evolution, and ecology. In the absence of pedigree records, relatedness can be estimated from genetic marker data using a number of estimators. These estimators, however, make the critical assumption of a large random mating population without ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.124438