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Distinction between maternal and paternal sharing

When sharing of maternal DNA is distinguished from sharing of paternal DNA, we proved in Section 5 that for each type of sib-pair

In this case, the second derivative of the transition matrix at is

hence the score statistic for each type of sib-pair is of the form

where is the number of sib-pairs (ASP, DSP or USP) sharing DNA IBD on i paternal and j maternal chromosomes, i,j= 0,1. Note that in general the score statistic is no longer independent of the genetic model.



Simon Cawley
Tue May 26 19:30:26 PDT 1998