An addendum to the manual includes a complete list of changes in each update. Download it here. Kinship is a program to perform maximum likelihood tests of pedigree relationships between pairs of individuals in a population. The user enters two hypothetical pedigree relationships, a primary hypothesis and a null hypothesis, and the program calculates likelihood ratios comparing the two hypotheses for all possible pairs in the data set. The calculation includes a simulation procedure to determine the statistical significance of results.
Kinship also calculates pairwise relatedness statistics.
The distribution package includes the program, a manual in Microsoft Word 5.1 format, and a sample data set. This bug was corrected in version 1.1. If you are using Kinship 1.0 you should switch to the current version. The new version of Kinshp will also incorporate many of the features originally intended for a separate program which was to be called Parentage. The combination of Kinship and Parentage into one program was based on the fact that many users were already using Kinship for everything that Parentage would have done.