The world is as it should be in personal genomics

Gene Expression
By Razib Khan
Apr 24, 2012 8:04 AMNov 19, 2019 9:28 PM

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I've been having some fun with my daughter's personal genomics. You see, she has her whole pedigree out to r = 1/4. So, for example, contributions from her grandparents seem to be about on this order: Paternal grandfather = 0.28 Paternal grandmother = 0.22 Maternal grandfather = 0.23 Maternal grandmother = 0.27 I've also calculated the number of recombinations which occurred leading up to the gametes which fused to create her. That will be for a future post. But here let's confirm that she is not inbred. I used plink for this. Here is the description of the command:

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