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Two-locus inbreeding measures for recurrent selection

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For a population undergoing recurrent selection, a method is presented for determining the average inbreeding coefficients at the end of each breeding cycle. The coefficients are derived in terms of probability measures that genes are identical by descent. For the one-locus case, two digametic measures are defined and employed in the derivation of a recurrence formula for the inbreeding coefficient. Two further classes of measures, trigametic and quadrigametic, are required for transition from one cycle to the previous one to allow the calculation of the inbreeding function for the two-locus case. Numerical values of the average probability of double identity by descent for populations with various imposed assumptions are listed to illustrate the effects of linkage and population size on the accrual of inbreeding and hence of homozygosity.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    S. C. Choy

  2. Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

    B. S. Weir

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Communicated by R.W. Allard

Paper number 5018 of the Journal Series of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Raleigh, North Carolina. This investigation was supported in part by NIH research grant number GM 11546 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

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Choy, S.C., Weir, B.S. Two-locus inbreeding measures for recurrent selection. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 49, 63–77 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00275165

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