R: Artificial pedigree data on eight families with inbreeding

inbreeding {BGmisc}

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Artificial pedigree data on eight families with inbreeding

A dataset created purely from imagination that includes several types of inbreeding. Different kinds of inbreeding occur in each extended family.

data(inbreeding)

A data frame (and ped object) with 134 rows and 7 variables

The types of inbreeding are as follows:

Extended Family 1: Sister wives - Children with the same father and different mothers who are sisters.
Extended Family 2: Full siblings have children.
Extended Family 3: Half siblings have children.
Extended Family 4: First cousins have children.
Extended Family 5: Father has child with his daughter.
Extended Family 6: Half sister wives - Children with the same father and different mothers who are half sisters.
Extended Family 7: Uncle-niece and Aunt-nephew have children.
Extended Family 8: A father-son pairs has children with a corresponding mother-daughter pair.

Although not all of the above structures are technically inbreeding, they aim to test pedigree diagramming and path tracing algorithms.

The variables are as follows:

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