Statistics on continuous IBD data: Exact distribution evaluation for a pair of full(half)-sibs and a pair of a (great-) grandchild with a (great-) grandparent

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Pairs of related individuals are widely used in linkage analysis. Most of the tests for linkage analysis are based on statistics associated with identity by descent (IBD) data. The current biotechnology provides data on very densely...

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Main Author: Stefanov Valeri T
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2002-05-01
Series:BMC Genetics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/3/7