title: easyLINKAGE: a PERL script for easy and automated two-/multi-point linkage analyses.
abstract: We have generated the program easyLINKAGE that combines automated setup and performance of linkage analyses and simulation under an easy to handle graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP and standard UNIX systems. The program package supports two-point linkage analyses (FastLink v4.1 and SPLink v1.09), multi-point linkage analyses [GENEHUNTER v2.1, GENEHUNTER-PLUS with the emendation by Kong and Cox v1.2 (allele sharing modelling)] and the simulation package SLINK v2.65, and provides genome-wide as well as chromosomal postscript plots of LOD scores, NPL scores, P-values and other parameters.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/nephrologie/molecular_genetics/molecular_genetics.htm
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary information is available on the website.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Medical University Clinic at the University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. tom.linder@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
authors.forename: Tom H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Lindner
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
mesh_terms: D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D008957:Models, Genetic; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface