[R-sig-ME] Fwd: from general r-help to mixed help group: please help: extract p-value from m

Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 16:23:56 CEST 2011


 <sharma.ram.h at ...> writes:

 [snip]

> the diagnol of kmat are assumed to be 0.50. I do not know if we can force  
> it to be 0.5, someway during calculation of kmat (kinship matrix).
> 
> For example kinship coefficient for 21st individual is 0.6250. The 21st  
> mother and father are 7 and 8 which are sibs (from parents being 1 and 2).  
> This is
> is inbreeding situation which is common in animals not in humans. I would  
> appreciate your comment if you work with kinship matrix.
> 

  I'm afraid I don't know much about kinship matrices.  I also don't
know enough to know if this warning is worth worrying about or not.

  Ben




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