Chunk #9 — Results

Source: Multipoint identity-by-descent computations for single-point polymorphism and microsatellite maps.
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Due to the large size of some of these pedigrees, software which computes all possible inheritance vectors (such as GENEHUNTER or Merlin [11]) has excessive memory requirements unless the pedigrees are pruned. Because all genotyped individuals can be used for quantitative trait analysis, this was deemed unacceptable.