Coancestry: A program for simulating, estimating and analysing relatedness and inbreeding coefficients

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 141-145

  Wang, Jinliang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic markers; Inbreeding coefficient; Maximum likelihood; Relatedness; Simulations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; INBREEDING; INSTRUMENTATION; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GENETICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INBREEDING; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 78650148188     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02885.x     Document Type: Article

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