Not to be confused with lineage-bonded society or
isolation by distance, another concept in population genetics with the acronym "IBD".
Identical nucleotide sequence due to inheritance without recombination from a common ancestor
A DNA segment is identical by descent (IBD) in two or more individuals if:
- they have inherited it from a common ancestor without recombination, that is, the segment has the same ancestral origin in these individuals
- the segment is maximal, that is, it is delimited at both ends by ancestral recombination events.[1]
The origin of IBD segments is depicted via a pedigree.
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