prune.plink: Prune markers by pairwise LD with PLINK

Description Usage Arguments Details Value References

Description

Prune markers by pairwise LD with PLINK

Usage

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prune.plink(prefix, prune.by = "--make-founders --indep 50 5 2", ...)

Arguments

prefix

a pointer to a PLINK fileset (of class plink)

prune.by

command-line flags to control LD-pruning

...

ignored

Details

See the relevant PLINK documentation for details of the underlying calculations.

Value

a pointer to a new, pruned PLINK fileset

References

PLINK v1.9: https://www.cog-genomics.org/plink2

Purcell S et al. (2007) PLINK: a toolset for whole-genome association and population-based linkage analysis. Am J Hum Genet 81(3): 559-575. doi:10.1086/519795.


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