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coefficient of co-ancestry

The probability that two alleles randomly sampled from different individuals are copies of the same ancestral allele without mutation, that is, the probability that they are identical by descent.

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Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)
ASB Standard 216 Standard for Construction of Multilocus Databases. AAFS Academy Standards Board (ASB), 410 North 21st Street, Colorado Springs, CO, 2025. Source link
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