ANCESTRYMAP

ANCESTRYMAP is a software tool to map disease-causing gene variants by admixture mapping in newly mixed populations. The ANCESTRYMAP algorithm uses composite genotypes of linked markers for the accounting of the ancestral origin of loci.

Topic

Disease;Genetics;Mapping

Detail

  • Operation: Mapping

  • Software interface: Command-line user interface

  • Language: Perl;C

  • License: -

  • Cost: Free

  • Version name: -

  • Credit: The Wadsworth Foundation, National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Culpeper Medical.

  • Input: .dat

  • Output: .dat

  • Contact: David Reich reich@genetics.med.harvard.edu

  • Collection: -

  • Maturity: Stable

Publications

  • Methods for high-density admixture mapping of disease genes.
  • Patterson N, Hattangadi N, Lane B, Lohmueller KE, Hafler DA, Oksenberg JR, Hauser SL, Smith MW, O'Brien SJ, Altshuler D, Daly MJ, Reich D. Methods for high-density admixture mapping of disease genes. Am J Hum Genet. 2004 May;74(5):979-1000. doi: 10.1086/420871. Epub 2004 Apr 14. PMID: 15088269; PMCID: PMC1181990.
  • https://doi.org/10.1086/420871
  • PMID: 15088269
  • PMC: PMC1181990

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