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A new approach to detecting mixed families
Timothy H Vines1, Nicholas H Barton
1Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, UK. vines@zoology.ubc.ca
Molecular Ecology
|June 14, 2003
Abstract:
There are several analyses in evolutionary ecology which assume that a family of offspring has come from only two parents. Here, we present a simple test for detecting when a batch involves two or more subfamilies. It is based on the fact that the mixing of families generates associations amongst unlinked marker loci. We also present simulations illustrating the power of our method for varying numbers of loci, alleles per locus and genotyped individuals.