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genetic degrees of consanguinity

  • (Left) Absence of inbreeding: horizontal lines connect mates, vertical lines connect parents with their child; (right) an inbreeding loop: horizontal bar at top of loop connects brother and sister, all other lines and bars as above
    In 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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