Open AccessIBDkin: fast estimation of kinship coefficients from identity by descent segments
Author(s) -
Ying Zhou,
Sharon R. Browning,
Brian L. Browning
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa569
Subject(s) - kinship , identity (music) , descent (aeronautics) , identity by descent , estimation , genealogy , computer science , mathematics , econometrics , statistics , sociology , anthropology , biology , geography , genetics , history , economics , physics , management , acoustics , genotype , haplotype , gene , meteorology
Estimation of pairwise kinship coefficients in large datasets is computationally challenging because the number of related individuals increases quadratically with sample size.
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