get.parentage: A function to extract the paternity and maternity information...

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

Description

This function extracts the paternity and maternity information from a colony object that was created using get.colony.data. The output is a dataframe with 3 columns. (1) mums, (2) dads, (3) frequency. The output can either be derived from pairwise-likelihood or the full-likelihood method (if available).

Usage

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get.parentage(colony.object, pairwise = FALSE)

Arguments

colony.object

A list created by get.colony.data

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pairwise

Should the parentage information be derived from the pairwise likelihood estimates (TRUE), of from the full likelihood methods (FALSE). See Wang et al. for details.

Value

A data frame with 3 columns. (1) mums, (2) dads, (3) frequency.

Author(s)

Owen R. Jones

References

Wang, J. (2004) Sibship reconstruction from genetic data with typing errors. Genetics 166: 1963-1979.

See Also

get.colony.data

Examples

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data(testdata)
parents<-get.parentage(testdata)
head(parents)

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