predSex: Estimating sample sex

In ENmix: Quality control and analysis tools for Illumina DNA methylation BeadChip

Description

Estimating sample sex based on methylation data

Usage

predSex(mdat, cutoff = 2)

Arguments

mdat	An object of class MethDataSet or rgDataSet.
cutoff	The difference in log2 total intensity between X and Y chromosomes

Details

Estimation of sex is based on the difference of log2 median total intensity measures on the X and Y chromosomes.

Author(s)

Zongli Xu

Examples

if (require(minfiData)) {
path <- file.path(find.package("minfiData"),"extdata")
rgSet <- readidat(path = path,recursive = TRUE)
sex=predSex(rgSet)
}

ENmix documentation built on April 2, 2021, 6 p.m.