Estimating pairwise relatedness in a small sample of individuals.

ABSTRACT: The genetic relatedness between individuals because of their recent common ancestry is now routinely estimated from marker genotype data in molecular ecology, evolutionary biology and conservation studies. The estimators developed for this purpose assume that marker allele freque218 in a population are known without errors. Unfortunately, however, these frequencies, upon which both the definition and the estimation of relatedness are based, are rarely known in reality. Frequently, the only data available in a relatedness analysis are a sample of multilocus genotypes from which both allele frequencies and relatedness must be deduced. Furthermore, because of various constraints, sample sizes of individuals can be quite small (say <50 individuals) in practice. This study shows, for the first

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5637371 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature