EgPeds: Example pedigrees

Description Usage Format

Description

A dataset containing five example pedigrees.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 65 rows and 14 variables:

FamID

Family identification number

ID

Individual identification number

sex

Gender identification variable: sex = 0 for males, and sex = 1 females.

dadID

Identification number of father

momID

Identification number of mother

affected

Affection status: affected = TRUE if individual has developed lymphoid cancer, and FALSE otherwise.

DA1

Paternally inherited allele at the assumed disease locus: DA1 = 1 if rare variant is present, and 0 otherwise.

DA2

Maternally inherited allele at the assumed disease locus: DA2 = 1 if rare variant is present, and 0 otherwise.

birthYr

Year of birth

onsetYr

Year of disease onset, when applicable.

deathYr

Year of death, when applicable.

RR

The subject's relative-risk of disease

available

Availability status, available = TRUE if the individual is unavailable, and FALSE 1 otherwise

Gen

The subject's generation number relative to the founder who introduced the rare variant. That is, the founder who introduced the rare variant will have Gen = 1, his or her offspring will have Gen = 2, etc.

proband

Proband identification variable, proband = TRUE if the individual is the proband, and FALSE otherwise.


SimRVPedigree documentation built on Feb. 10, 2020, 1:07 a.m.