Example QTL for the albino and HDLD2 traits in example.pheno. Albino is a binary, Mendelian trait that maps to the Tyrosinase locus on Chr 7. HDLD2 (high density lipoprotein) is a complex trait with many loci.
Usage
example.qtl
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 149 observations on the following 8 variables. Sample IDs in rownames and phenotype names in colnames.
Sample
Character vector containing sample IDs.
Sex
Character vector containing the sex of each animal.
Gen
Character vector containing DO outbreeding generation and litter.
Diet
Character vector containing diet, either chow or hf for high fat.
Coat.Color
Character vector containing text description of mouse colors.
albino
Numeric vector contining 1 if the mouse's coat color was white.
black
Numeric vector contining 1 if the mouse's coat color was black.
HDLD2
Numeric vector of high density lipoprotein values.