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- noun biology A measure of the degree of
common ancestry of two (or more)individuals
Etymologies
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From co- + ancestry
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In real data sets, the evidence of coancestry that manifests as faint genome-wide linkage disequilibrium may be augmented by factors that were not modeled here (e.g. natural selection and the organization of the genome into discrete chromosomes).
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