Founder in a pedigree
= Founder in a pedigree
= Founders in a pedigree
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= Pedigree founder
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A founder is an individual whose parents are outside the recorded <pedigree>. The standard <pedigree likelihood> assigns unrelated founders independent genotype distributions based on population allele or haplotype frequencies. If founders are related, their joint prior must instead account for that relationship.