Inbreeding
The inbreeding calculation has been enhanced in two key areas. Firstly, from looking at a lot of the data that is out there its not unusual to see "self parenting" type errors in a database. These can be particularly difficult to detect because it can occur after say 40 generations. To solve this problem the Inbreeding Calculation function will automatically check for self parenting errors with the number of generations specified by the user.The second big change is that IC now has its own grid for displaying results as shown below: The grid displays:
- the minimum and maximum generations at which an ancestor appears
- the number of times it occurs
- the COI (Coefficient of Inbreeding)
- COR (Coefficient of Relationship).
- Percentage of Blood
- Line Breeding
Toolbar buttons provide the ability to sort on any of the fields making it easy to see which ancestors have the greatest influence (COR) or occur the most times. There's also a copy button for copying the grid contents to other applications like Excel.
We also have a Breed Planner which provides two
side-by-side tables as above and also allows printing.
We get a lot of queries about inbreeding coefficient and to a lesser extent the relationship coefficient. BreedMate calculates the Wrights Inbreeding Coefficient.
Wright's Inbreeding Coefficient (IC)
Inbreeding can be defined by either of the following two statements:
1. The probability that both genes of a pair in an individual are identical by descent, ie homozygous
2. The probable proportion of an individual's loci containing genes that are identical by descent Wright's Coefficient of Relationship (RC)
A measure of pedigree relationship. The probable proportion of one individual's genes that are identical
by descent to genes of a second individual The correlation between the breeding values of tw
individuals due to pedigree relationship alone.
Number of generations used in calculation
BreedMate allows you to select the number of generations used in the calculation.
The way a generation limited calculation is done is, if an ancestor appeared within N generations then it
was also included if it appeared past N generations. For example, if you calculate COI for
8 generations and ancestor "A" appears at gen 7, 10, 11 then all those "appearences will
be included" whereas in 4.6 only its appearence at 7 is included.
Note if you set the generations large enough the COI will be the same for both 4.6 and 5.1+.
Links
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