Human Heredity

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The kinship2 R Package for Pedigree Data

Sinnwell J.P. · Therneau T.M. · Schaid D.J.

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Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., USA

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Jason P. Sinnwell

Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics

Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic

200 1st Ave SW, Rochester, MN 55905-0001 (USA)

E-Mail sinnwell.jason@mayo.edu

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Abstract

Background: The kinship2 package is restructured from the previous kinship package. Existing features are now enhanced and new features added for handling pedigree objects. Methods: Pedigree plotting features have been updated to display features on complex pedigrees while adhering to pedigree plotting standards. Kinship matrices can now be calculated for the X chromosome. Other methods have been added to subset and trim pedigrees while maintaining the pedigree structure. Conclusion: We make the kinship2 package available for R on the Contributed R Archives Network (CRAN), where data management is built-in and other packages can use the pedigree object.

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Abstract of Original Paper

Received: February 11, 2014
Accepted: April 23, 2014
Published online: July 29, 2014
Issue release date: August 2014

Number of Print Pages: 3
Number of Figures: 1
Number of Tables: 0

ISSN: 0001-5652 (Print)
eISSN: 1423-0062 (Online)

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