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. 2012 Jun 6;13:121. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-121

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Illustration of the procedure for creating artificial IBD seg- ments. For a pair of individuals, a segment of the chromosome (shown in red) within a randomly chosen region on Chromosome 1 is copied to one chromosome in another individual.