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From: charles <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Need help with siblingship indexes and frequenciesof autosomal alleles.
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:15:34 -0400
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Eldon:
You can find a chapter on that subject in the book "How to DNA Test Our Family
Relationships". There is a link to that book in my recommended DNA testing
books list.
http://www.kerchner.com/books/dnabooks.htm
Charles Kerchner
http://www.kerchner.com/dna-info.htm
Eldon Wade wrote:
> Does anyone know where I might find examples where the full siblingship and
> the half siblingship indexes were calculated?
>
> I would suspect that these formulas incorporate factors for the rarity of
> the marker values so any help finding the frequencies of the autosomal
> markers would also be very appreciated.
>
> In this case I am using 18 autosomal alleles (36 marker values) for each of
> 3 purported siblings.
> I have the DNA profiles so I suppose I could provide them to a paternity
> testing lab and just have them calculate the indexes but I would like to
> make an attempt at the calculations myself.
>
> Eldon
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