For first cousins in an otherwise outbred pedigree, compare the copies transmitted from their related parents, who are full siblings. These transmissions trace to the same shared grandparent with probability and then to the same homologous copy of that grandparent with probability , giving . The unrelated parental contributions cannot match, so two shared copies have probability zero. Selecting one random copy from each cousin chooses those two potentially shared copies with probability , giving kinship coefficient .
In an outbred pedigree, the two full siblings receive the same paternal copy with probability , and independently the same maternal copy with probability . Thus the number of shared copies has a binomial distribution with probabilities , and .
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For full siblings in an outbred pedigree, condition on both being affected under multiplicative diallelic penetrance and on residual disease outcomes being independent given their genotypes. The usual Mendelian IBD sharing of full siblings probabilities are weighted by , respectively, giving the displayed conditional sharing probabilities. Since , , strictly for a polymorphic locus with a nontrivial effect.