The kinship2 R package for pedigree data

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Background: The kinship2 package is restructured from the previous kinship package. Existing features are now enhanced and new features added for handling pedigree objects. Methods: Pedigree plotting features have been updated to display features on complex pedigrees while adhering to pedigree plotting standards. Kinship matrices can now be calculated for the X chromosome. Other methods have been added to subset and trim pedigrees while maintaining the pedigree structure. Conclusion: We make the kinship2 package available for R on the Contributed R Archives Network (CRAN), where data management is built-in and other packages can use the pedigree object. © 2014 S. Karger AG, Basel.

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Sinnwell, J. P., Therneau, T. M., & Schaid, D. J. (2014). The kinship2 R package for pedigree data. Human Heredity, 78(2), 91–93. https://doi.org/10.1159/000363105

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