PedMerge: merging pedigrees to facilitate family-based genetic statistical analyses.
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
Plaetke
Rosemarie
R
Department of Anthropology, and Center for Alaska Native Health Research, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA. rplaetke@alaska.edu
Balbi
Federico
F
D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010375:Pedigree; D012984:Software