Motivation Rapid and low cost sequencing of genomes enabled widespread use of genomic data in research studies and personalized customer applications, where genomic data is shared in public databases. Although the identities of the participants are anonymized in these databases, sensitive information about individuals can still be inferred. One such information is kinship. Results We define t...

In order to navigate the social world, children need to understand and make predictions about how people will interact with one another. Throughout most of human history, social groups have been prominently marked by kinship relations, but few experiments have examined children's knowledge of and reasoning about kinship relations. In the current studies, we investigated how 3- to 5-year-old chi...

We developed a new approach for pairwise kinship analysis in forensic genetics based on chromosomal sharing between two individuals. Here, we defined "index of chromosome sharing" (ICS) calculated using 174,254 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci typed by SNP microarray and genetic length of the shared segments from the genotypes of two individuals. To investigate the expected ICS distrib...

The Kinship Face in the Wild data sets, recently published in TPAMI, are currently used as a benchmark for the evaluation of kinship verification algorithms. We recommend that these data sets are no longer used in kinship verification research unless there is a compelling reason that takes into account the nature of the images. We note that most of the image kinship pairs are cropped from the s...

Three different approaches were used to assess the kinship structure of two epiphytic bryophytes, Orthotrichum speciosum and O. obtusifolium, that have different dispersal strategies. The two species were sampled in a 200 ha landscape where species occurrence and host trees had been mapped previously. Local environmental conditions at sampled trees were recorded and kinship between individuals ...

10 Maloney and Dal Martello (2006) reported that similarity ratings of pairs of related and unrelated children were almost perfect predictors of the probability that those children were labeled as being siblings by a second group of observers. Surprisingly, similarity ratings were not good predictors of whether a sibling pair was same-sex or opposite-sex or how close a pair was in age, suggesti...

UNLABELLED Two functions for pedigree-drawing available in R (http://www.r-project.org): plot.pedigree in kinship and pedtodot in gap are described. The latter requires graphviz (http://www.graphviz.org). They can produce many pedigree diagrams quickly into a single file, serving as alternatives to programs that only offer interactive use. AVAILABILITY Packages kinship and gap are available f...

Title of Document: INTERNALIZING AND EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIORS OF ADOLESCENTS IN KINSHIP AND FOSTER CARE: FINDINGS FROM THE NATIONAL SURVEY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT WELL-BEING Sarah Kaye, Ph.D. Family Studies, 2007 Directed By: Sandra Hofferth, Ph.D. Professor Department of Family Studies The mission of the United States child welfare system is to promote safety, permanency and well-being for chil...