Optimizing pedigrees: a numerical approach
Justin Ang · 2017
Pedigrees, though straightforward and versatile, lack the ability to tell us information about many individuals. For example, it is hard to distinguish carriers from unaffected individuals in pedigrees. In order to find such information, we must trace back and manually evaluate the tree, which is both cumbersome and inefficient. I have discovered a way to represent individuals in the pedigree using numbers, such that the probability of an individual inheriting a certain trait can be easily calculated from their parents.