removeUninformativeFounders: Remove uninformative founders.

In rmsharp/nprcmanager: Genetic Tools for Colony Management

Description

Founders (having unknown sire and dam) that appear only one time in a pedigree are uninformative and can be removed from a pedigree without loss of information.

Usage

removeUninformativeFounders(ped)

Arguments

ped	datatable that is the 'Pedigree'. It contains pedigree information. The fields sire and dam are required.

Value

A reduced pedigree.

Examples

examplePedigree <- nprcgenekeepr::examplePedigree
breederPed <- qcStudbook(examplePedigree, minParentAge = 2,
                         reportChanges = FALSE,
                         reportErrors = FALSE)
probands <- breederPed$id[!(is.na(breederPed$sire) &
                               is.na(breederPed$dam)) &
                               is.na(breederPed$exit)]
ped <- getProbandPedigree(probands, breederPed)
nrow(ped)
p <- removeUninformativeFounders(ped)
nrow(p)
p <- addBackSecondParents(p, ped)
nrow(p)

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