Journal
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 23, Pages 5738-5742Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12527
Keywords
accuracy; kinship; parentage analysis
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Genetic parentage analyses provide a practical means with which to identify parent-offspring relationships in the wild. In Harrison etal.'s study (2013a), we compare three methods of parentage analysis and showed that the number and diversity of microsatellite loci were the most important factors defining the accuracy of assignments. Our simulations revealed that an exclusion-Bayes theorem method was more susceptible to false-positive and false-negative assignments than other methods tested. Here, we analyse and discuss the trade-off between type I and type II errors in parentage analyses. We show that controlling for false-positive assignments, without reporting type II errors, can be misleading. Our findings illustrate the need to estimate and report both the rate of false-positive and false-negative assignments in parentage analyses.
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