Fig. 3.

The histogram of the number of matched segments between different individuals in the simulated data. We used the set of unrelated individuals in the LWK population from the 1000 genomes data as the founder. Panel (A) indicates our method which uses the rare variants to detect the relativeness between the different individuals and panel (B) indicates the result of the method proposed by He et al. (2013). Thus, utilizing the rare variants, we can detect up to fifth-degree cousin as opposed to the third-degree cousin