Genome-wide patterns of identity-by-descent sharing in the French Canadian founder population

In genetics the ability to accurately describe the familial relationships among a group of individuals can be very useful. Recent statistical tools succeeded in assessing the degree of relatedness up to 6–7 generations with good power using dense genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism data to es...

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Main Authors: Gauvin, Héloïse, Moreau, Claudia, Lefebvre, Jean-François, Laprise, Catherine, Vézina, Hélène, Labuda, Damian, Roy-Gagnon, Marie-Hélène
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4023206/