Measuring individual inbreeding in the age of genomics: marker-based measures are better than pedigrees

2015/03/18 by M Kardos, Marty Kardos, G Luikart +3 · 430 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Allele #Biology #Demography #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals #Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genetic variation #Genetics #Genotype #Haplotype #Identity by descent #Inbreeding #Pedigree chart #Population #Runs of Homozygosity #Single-nucleotide polymorphism

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/hdy.2015.17

published in Heredity 115(1), 63-72 (Springer Nature)

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