linkage user's guide (version 5.2)


2.0 Overview

The input data consist of pedigree and genotypic information contained in one file, and locus descriptions, recombination rates and locus order contained in a second file. Internally (i.e. in the program code), these files are called PEDFILE and DATAFILE respectively.
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