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The pedigree founder factor depends on population allele and haplotype frequencies, ancestry, mating assumptions and any population linkage disequilibrium. At one autosomal genetic locus, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium with allele frequencies gives genotype probabilities . For a specified ordered pair of independent pedigree founder haplotypes , the probability is ; an unordered distinct pair has twice that probability. Pedigree founders assumed to be related require a joint prior rather than a product of unrelated-founder factors.
The nonfounder factor depends on the parental genotypes and phases, Mendelian segregation, and the recombination fractions between genetic loci. In a two-locus heterozygote of known phase, the two parental haplotypes have transmission probabilities each, and the two recombinant haplotypes each. Multiply the maternal and paternal gamete probabilities and sum any gamete combinations producing the child's genotype. Sex-specific genetic recombination, mutation or segregation distortion can be incorporated by changing these gamete probabilities. At one ordinary autosomal genetic locus, each parental copy is transmitted with probability .
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