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snpStats (version 1.22.0)

ld.example: Datasets to illustrate calculation of linkage disequilibrium statistics

Description

This R data file contains data from the International HapMap project, concerning 603 SNPs spanning a one megabase region on chromosome 22, in a sample of Europeans and a sample of Africans

Arguments

Format

There are three objects in the file:
  • ceph.1m: A snpMatrix object containing the European genotype data
  • yri.1m: A snpMatrix object containing the African genotype data
  • support.ld: A dataframe containing details (chromosome position etc.
of the 603 SNPs

References

The International HapMap Consortium. The International HapMap Project. Nature 426:789-796 (2003)