The probability that related individuals share some section of genome identical by descent.

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Summary

A formal mathematical framework is presented for the study of linkage in man and the concept of chromosome pedigree is defined for both autosomes and X chromosomes, where all the crossover processes in the pedigree may be viewed jointly as a continuous-time Markov random walk on the vertices of a hypercube.

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article
Published
1983-02-01
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Keywords

Crossover, Identity by descent, Combinatorics, Markov chain, Linkage (software)

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