Pedigree Analysis in R covers a wide range of applications in forensic and medical genetics. The book's material was developed through teaching numerous courses on genetic relatedness and pedigree analysis and includes extensive use of R and insights from a decade of research activities in forensic and medical genetics. The Ped Suite, a unified collection of R packages for pedigree analysis, will help users navigate the book's contents.
- Presents a coherent treatment of a variety of pedigree analyses
- Treats a variety of pedigree analysis, including theoretical backgrounds, an overview of R features/analysis, an in-depth analysis of a worked examples, exercises, and easy-to-follow R code with explanations
1. Prerequisites2. Pedigrees and Marker Data3. Coefficients of Relatedness4. Realised Relatedness5. Probabilities on Pedigrees6. Kinship Testing7. Inference of Pairwise Relatedness8. Pedigree Reconstruction9. Linkage Analysis10. Segregation Analysis for Variant Interpretation
Magnus Dehli Vigeland works in the Department of Medical Genetics at Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
