The Polymorphism Information Content (PIC) value is often used to measure the informativeness of a genetic marker for linkage studies. The PIC value was first derived for the case of a rare dominant disease, when one of the parents is affected, and is a function of the particular mode of disease inheritance. We first generalize the definition of the PIC value in such a way that it does not depend on the mode of inheritance of the trait being studied, and then develop a Linkage Information Content (LIC) value to measure the informativeness of a marker about the identity-by-descent sharing status of particular types of pairs of relatives. Knowing the LIC value, it is possible to determine the effective number of fully informative pairs in a study when we have incomplete marker information.
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