SNPchip (version 2.18.0)

centromere: Coordinates of centromere

Description

Extracts coordinates of centromere for a particular chromosome

Usage

centromere(chromosome, build, verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

chromosome

Chromosome name. Several formats for specifying chromosome are allowed (see examples).

build

character string. Supported UCSC builds are `hg18' and `hg19'.

verbose

Logical. Displays build used to annotate the centromere coordinates when TRUE

Value

integer: start and stop coordinates of centromere in basepairs

Examples

centromere(1, "hg18")
centromere("1", "hg18")
centromere("chr1", "hg18")
centromere(1, "hg19")
centromere("X", "hg18")