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Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on April 9, 2009
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp185
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A graphical algorithm for fast computation of identity coefficients and generalized kinship coefficients

Abney Mark *

Department of Human Genetics, 920 E 58th St., Chicago, IL 60637

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Dr. Mark Abney, E-mail: abney{at}bsd.uchicago.edu


  Abstract

Summary: Computing the probability of identity by descent sharing among n genes given only the pedigree of those genes is a computationally challenging problem if n or the pedigree size is large. Here, I present a novel graphical algorithm for efficiently computing all generalized kinship coefficients for n genes.The graphical description transforms the problem from doing many recursion on the pedigree to doing a single traversal of a structure referred to as the kinship graph.

Availability: The algorithm is implemented for n = 4 in the software package IdCoefs at http://home.uchicago.edu/~abney/Software.html.

Contact: abney{at}bsd.uchicago.edu

Associate Editor: Prof. Martin Bishop

Received on February 12, 2009; revised on March 30, 2009; accepted on March 31, 2009

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