makeqtl: Make a qtl object

Description

This function takes a cross object and specified chromosome numbers and positions and pulls out the genotype probabilities or imputed genotypes at the nearest pseudomarkers, for later use by the function fitqtl.

Usage

makeqtl(cross, chr, pos, qtl.name, what=c("draws","prob"))

Arguments

cross

An object of class cross. See read.cross for details.

chr

Vector indicating the chromosome for each QTL. (These should be character strings referring to the chromosomes by name.)

pos

Vector (of same length as chr) indicating the positions on the chromosome to be taken. If there is no marker or pseudomarker at a position, the nearest position is used.

qtl.name

Optional user-specified name for each QTL, used in the drop-one-term ANOVA table in fitqtl. If unspecified, the names will be of the form "Chr1@10" for a QTL on Chromsome 1 at 10 cM.

what

Indicates whether to pull out the imputed genotypes or the genotype probabilities.

Value

geno: Imputed genotypes.
prob: Genotype probabilities.
name: User-defined name for each QTL, or a name of the form "Chr1@10".
altname: QTL names of the form "Q1", "Q2", etc.
chr: Input vector of chromosome numbers.
pos: Input vector of chromosome positions.
n.qtl: Number of QTLs.
n.ind: Number of individuals.
n.gen: A vector indicating the number of genotypes for each QTL.

Details

This function will take out the genotype probabilities and imputed genotypes if they are present in the input cross object. If both fields are missing in the input object, the function will report an error. Before running this function, the user must have first run either sim.geno (for what="draws") or calc.genoprob (for what="prob").

Examples

Run this code

data(fake.f2)

# take out several QTLs and make QTL object
qc <- c("1", "6", "13")
qp <- c(25.8, 33.6, 18.63)
fake.f2 <- subset(fake.f2, chr=qc)

fake.f2 <- sim.geno(fake.f2, n.draws=8, step=2, err=0.001)
qtl <- makeqtl(fake.f2, qc, qp, what="draws")
summary(qtl)

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