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Relating the IBD Length to Years from Present

We aim to establish a relation between the length of an IBD segment and the time of the most recent common ancestor of the individuals that possess the IBD segment. The shorter the IBD segment is, the older it is, the longer ago the most recent common ancestor is found. For IBD lengths distributions, mathematical models have already been established. However these models assume IBD segment sharing between only two individuals.



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Sepp Hochreiter 2013-11-13