title: PedMerge: merging pedigrees to facilitate family-based genetic statistical analyses.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  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.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://sites.google.com/site/rosemarieplaetke/home/s/pedmerge
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, and Center for Alaska Native Health Research, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA. rplaetke@alaska.edu
authors.forename: Rosemarie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Plaetke
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Balbi
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010375:Pedigree; D012984:Software