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A unit of measurement for genetic linkage, used to express the distance between chromosome positions and calculate relationship proximity.
GEnealogical Data COMmunication file format used to exchange family tree data between different genealogy software programs.
The process of identifying three or more people who share a common segment of DNA on the same chromosome inherited from a shared ancestor.
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