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ancIBD

  • SHORT NAME: ancIBD
  • FULL NAME: ancIBD
  • YEAR: 2023
  • DESCRIPTION: This Python software package screens ancient human DNA for long IBD blocks (Identity by Descent segments) shared between pairs of individuals.
  • URL : https://github.com/hringbauer/ancIBD
  • CITATION: Ringbauer, H., Huang, Y., Akbari, A., Mallick, S., Olalde, I., Patterson, N., & Reich, D. (2023). Accurate detection of identity-by-descent segments in human ancient DNA. Nature Genetics, 1-9.
  • KEY WORDS: ancient DNA, IBD, hidden Markov model, imputed genotype probabilities