paramlink (version 0.7-0)

dominant: Example pedigree for linkage analysis: 23 individuals, 650 SNPs

Description

Medical pedigree with 23 individuals of which 15 are genotyped with 650 SNP markers. Eleven family members are affected by a disease, showing an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern.

Usage

data(dominant)

format

A data frame with 24 observations on 1305 variables. The columns are FAMID, ID, FID MID, SEX, AFF, M1_1, M1_2, ..., M650_1, M650_2. The first 6 columns describe the pedigree structure and affection status, while the final 1300 columns contain the marker alleles. All markers are SNPs, whose alleles are written as 1 and 2. Missing alleles are denoted by 0.

Examples

data(dominant)
x = linkdat(dominant)
summary(x)