kinship2: The kinship2 package for pedigree data

In sinnweja/kinship2: Pedigree Functions

The kinship2 package for pedigree data

Description

The kinship2 package for pedigree data

Details

The package download, NEWS, and README are available on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=kinship2

Functions

Below are listed some of the most widely used functions available in arsenal:

pedigree: Contstructor of the pedigree class, given identifiers, sex, affection status(es), and special relationships

kinship: Calculates the kinship matrix, the probability having an allele sampled from two individuals be the same via IBD.

plot.pedigree: Plot method for a pedigree object. Allows extra information to be included in the id under the plot symbol

legendPlot: Special version of plot.pedigree, with an informativelegend along the bottom of the figure

pedigree.shrink: Shrink a pedigree to a specific bit size, removing non-informative members first.

bitSize: Approximate the output from SAS's PROC FREQ procedure when using the /list option of the TABLE statement.

Data

sample.ped: Pedigree example data sets with two pedigrees minnbreast: Larger cohort of pedigrees from MN breast cancer study

Examples

library(kinship2)

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