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Assumed Genetic and Environmental Correlations Between Relative Pairs
| Variance Components | Relative pair relation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Siblings | Half-siblings | Cousins | ||||
| mHSs | pHSs | mPCs | CCs | pPCs | ||
| Additive Genetic Effect | 0.5 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.125 | 0.125 | 0.125 |
| Maternal Effect | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Shared Environmental Effect | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unshared Environmental Effect | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
CCs, cross cousins; mHSs, maternal half-siblings; mPCs, maternal parallel cousins; pHSs, paternal half-siblings; pPCs, paternal parallel cousins.
