chrom.bands: Dataset of human chromosomes and their banding patterns
Description
Dataset used to produce human chromosomal ideograms for plotting purposes.
Format
A data frame with 4068 observations on the following 12 variables.
chr
- a character vector
arm
- a character vector
band
- a character vector
ISCN.top
- a numeric vector
ISCN.bot
- a numeric vector
bases.top
- a numeric vector
bases.bot
- a numeric vector
stain
- a character vector
cM.top
- a numeric vector
cM.bot
- a numeric vector
n.markers
- a numeric vector
p.markers
- a numeric vector
Source
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/H\_sapiens/maps/mapview/BUILD.35.1/ideogram.gz.Details
The original file gives only the physical map positions. The genetic map
positions are interpolated from the Rutgers linkage map (Kong et al 2004).
References
Kong X, Murphy K, Raj T, He C, White PS, Matise TC. 2004.
A Combined Linkage-Physical Map of the Human Genome.
American Journal of Human Genetics, 75(6):1143-8.