Abstract
AbstractThe correlations between relatives is one of the fundamental ideas and earliest success of quantitative genetics. Whether using genomic data to infer relationships between individuals or estimating heritability from correlations of phenotypes amongst relatives, understanding the theoretical genetic correlations is a common task. Calculating the correlations between arbitrary relatives in an outbred population, however, can be a careful and somewhat complex task for increasingly distant relatives. This paper introduces an equation based method that consolidates the results of path analysis and uses easily obtainable data from non-inbred pedigrees to allow the rapid calculation of additive or dominance correlations between relatives even in more complicated situations such as cousins sharing more than two grandparents and inbreeding.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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