PedMerge: merging pedigrees to facilitate family-based genetic statistical analyses
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PedMerge: merging pedigrees to facilitate family-based genetic statistical analyses
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 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bioinformatics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1367-4803,1460-2059
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq523