Journal
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 256-263Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01940.x
Keywords
allele frequency errors; codominant molecular markers; maximum likelihood; relatedness
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Previously reported maximum-likelihood pairwise relatedness (r) estimator of Thompson and Milligan (M) was extended to allow for negative r estimates under the regression interpretation of r. This was achieved by establishing the equivalency of the likelihoods used in the KINSHIP program and the likelihoods of Thompson. The new maximum-likelihood (ML) estimator was evaluated by Monte Carlo simulations. It was found that the new ML estimator became unbiased significantly faster compared to the original M estimator when the amount of genotype information was increased. The effects of allele frequency estimation errors on the new and existing relatedness estimators were also considered.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available