Jacquard identity coefficients

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For two individuals carrying labelled copies and , condensed identity coefficients give the probabilities of nine identity by descent patterns, identifying states that differ only by exchanging the two homologues within either individual. They retain within-individual autozygosity, which three ordinary outbred sharing coefficients omit. One convention is
Each block consists of copies identical by descent, and different blocks have distinct ancestral origins. For siblings whose parents are otherwise outbred first cousins, these coefficients are . This follows by conditioning on whether the parents share one ancestral copy and enumerating the four independent Mendelian segregation choices to their two children. The kinship coefficient is , here . Weir's discussion of identity states uses this convention.

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