Inference of Relationships in Population Data Using Identity-by-Descent and Identity-by-State

Eric L. Stevens; Greg Heckenberg; Elisha D. O. Roberson; Joseph D. Baugher; Thomas J. Downey; Jonathan Pevsner

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002287

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Inference of Relationships in Population Data Using Identity-by-Descent and Identity-by-State

Eric L. Stevens ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric L. Stevens, Greg Heckenberg, Elisha D. O. Roberson

Affiliation Program in Human Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Greg Heckenberg ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric L. Stevens, Greg Heckenberg, Elisha D. O. Roberson

Affiliation Partek, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Elisha D. O. Roberson ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric L. Stevens, Greg Heckenberg, Elisha D. O. Roberson

Current address: Department of Genetics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Program in Human Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Joseph D. Baugher,

Affiliation Program in Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Thomas J. Downey,

Affiliation Partek, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Jonathan Pevsner

* E-mail: pevsner@kennedykrieger.org

Affiliations Program in Human Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Program in Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Hugo Moser Institute at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Inference of Relationships in Population Data Using Identity-by-Descent and Identity-by-State

Eric L. Stevens,
Greg Heckenberg,
Elisha D. O. Roberson,
Joseph D. Baugher,
Thomas J. Downey,
Jonathan Pevsner

Published: September 22, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002287

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