pedigreeDeleteDuplicates {GWASTools} | R Documentation

## Remove duplicates from a pedigree

### Description

`pedigreeDeleteDuplicates` removes duplicates from a pedigree.

### Usage

    pedigreeDeleteDuplicates(pedigree, duplicates)

### Arguments

`pedigree` | A dataframe containing the pedigree information for the samples to be examined with columns labeled "family", "individ", "mother", "father" and "sex" containing the identifiers of the family, individual, individual's mother, individual's father and individual's sex (coded as "M" or "F") .
`duplicates` | dataframe with columns "family" (family id) and "individ" (individual id).

### Details

The output of `pedigreeCheck` can be provided to `pedigreeDeleteDuplicates` in order to generate a new pedigree with duplicates removed.

### Value

The output of `pedigreeDeleteDuplicates` is a pedigree identical to `pedigree`, but with duplicates removed.

### Author(s)

Cecelia Laurie

### See Also

`pedigreeCheck`, `pedigreePairwiseRelatedness`

### Examples

    family <- c(1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2)
    individ <- c(1,2,3,3,4,5,6,6)
    mother <- c(0,0,1,1,0,0,4,4)
    father <- c(0,0,2,2,0,0,5,5)
    sex <- c("F","M","F","F","F","F","M","M")
    pedigree <- data.frame(family, individ, mother, father, sex, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
    duplicates <- pedigreeCheck(pedigree)$duplicates
    pedigree.no.dups <- pedigreeDeleteDuplicates(pedigree, duplicates)

[Package GWASTools version 1.28.0 Index]