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consanguinity
Inbreeding and pedigree construction
…of identical alleles from the grandparent. With each further degree of consanguinity, the likelihood is halved, so that in the child of a mating between aunt and nephew the likelihood of identical alleles would be 1 in 8, and in a child of first cousins, 1 in 16.
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…of identical alleles from the grandparent. With each further degree of consanguinity, the likelihood is halved, so that in the child of a mating between aunt and nephew the likelihood of identical alleles would be 1 in 8, and in a child of first cousins, 1 in 16.
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