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A Note on Parent-Offspring Correlation and Inbreeding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Ranajit Chakraborty
Ranajit Chakraborty*
Affiliation:
Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
*
Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B.T. Road, Calcutta 35, India

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For a diallelic autosomal character, the correlation between parental total score and offspring total score (known as the parent-offspring correlation) given by + √{s(1 + 3F)/[(s + 1) + F(3s − 1)]}, is used here to estimate F, the constant which is commonly interpreted as coefficient of inbreeding. When the family records include varying number of children, a reasonably good estimate of F is exhibited which agrees fairly with other available estimates.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 1971 , pp. 205 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1971

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