QTLRel (version 0.2-15)

kinship: Calculate kinship coefficients

Description

Calculate kinship coefficients from a pedigree.

Usage

kinship(ped, ids)

Arguments

ped

a pedigree, which a data frame (id, sire, dam, ...). If given, "generation" can be numeric 0, 1, 2, ... or non-numeric "F0", "F1", "F2", ... If "sex" is included, male should be "M", "Male" or 1, and female should be "F", "Female" or 2 (other than 0 and 1). Note that 0 is reserved for missing values.

ids

IDs of the individuals. If given, kinship coefficients are extracted for individuals with ID ids; otherwise, kinship coefficients are provided for all individuals in the pedigree.

Value

A matrix giving kinship coefficients.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(miscEx)

ids<- sample(pedF8$id,10)
# }
# NOT RUN {
ksp<- kinship(pedF8,ids=ids)
# }