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read.plink.binary: Read PLINK binary file.

Description

read.plink.binary reads PLINK binary .bed file and the corresponding .bim and .fam file.

Usage

read.plink.binary(bed, bim = NULL, fam = NULL, na.strings = c("0", "-9"))

Arguments

bed, bim, fam

PLINK files with appropriate extensions.

na.strings

string vector, text entries to be treated as NA's.

Value

A list of three elements: genotype, fam and map. To be consistent with PLINK .bed file, genotype is a n_subject by n_marker matrix of counts of reference alleles. Missing values are -9. fam is a dataframe that contains the first six columns of a PLINK .ped file. map is a dataframe that contains the four columns of a PLINK .map file, with two additional columns: allele_1 for the reference allele type, allele_2 for the alternate allele type.

Details

When the three files have the same name, only the .bed file needs to be specified.