On the number of siblings and p-th cousins in a large population sample

DOI10.1007/S00285-018-1252-8MaRDI QIDQ1789068zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Vladimir Shchur, Rasmus Nielsen

Publication date 9 October 2018

Published in Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-018-1252-8

zbMATH Keywords

cousinsdioecious Wright-Fisher modelpedigreesiblingsStirling numbers of the second kind

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partitions of sets (05A18) Bell and Stirling numbers (11B73) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10)

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