PedMerge: merging pedigrees to facilitate family-based genetic statistical analyses

Rosemarie Plaetke; Federico Balbi

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq523

PedMerge: merging pedigrees to facilitate family-based genetic statistical analyses

Bioinformatics. 2010 Nov 1;26(21):2790-1. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq523. Epub 2010 Sep 15.

Authors

Rosemarie Plaetke¹, Federico Balbi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Anthropology, and Center for Alaska Native Health Research, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA. rplaetke@alaska.edu

Abstract

Summary: PedMerge allows users to accurately and efficiently merge separately ascertained pedigrees that belong to the same extended family. In addition to validation checks of pedigree structure, the software provides files in LINKAGE or PEDSYS format that easily allow to be used by a variety of genetic statistical software packages including LINKAGE, SOLAR, SLINK or can be further manipulated with Mega2.

Availability: http://sites.google.com/site/rosemarieplaetke/home/s/pedmerge

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Animals
Dogs
Family
Humans
Models, Statistical
Pedigree*
Software*

Grants and funding

P20 RR16430/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States