gap (version 0.4)

muvar: Means and variances under 1- and 2- locus (biallelic) QTL model

Description

Function muvar1() gives means and variances under 1-locus QTL model (simple), while muvar2() gives means and variances under 2-locus QTL model -- it gives results from different avenues.

The results can be kept via R's sink() command or via modifying the C/R codes

Usage

muvar1(y1,p1) 
or 
muvar2(y12,p1,p2

Arguments

y1

the genotypic means of aa, Aa and AA

p1

the frequency of the lower allele, or the that for the first locus under a 2-locus model

y12

the genotypic means of aa, Aa and AA at the first locus and bb, Bb and BB at the second locus

p2

the frequency of the lower allele at the second locus

Value

• It does not return any value except screent output.

References

Sham P (1998). Statistics in Human Genetics. Arnold

Examples

# the default 1-locus model
muvar1()
# the default 2-locus model
muvar2()