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paramlink

Parametric Linkage and Other Pedigree Analysis in R

v1.1-6 · Jul 21, 2025 · GPL (>= 2)

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NOTE: 'PARAMLINK' HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY THE 'PEDSUITE' PACKAGES (<https://magnusdv.github.io/pedsuite/>). 'PARAMLINK' IS MAINTAINED ONLY FOR LEGACY PURPOSES AND SHOULD NOT BE USED IN NEW PROJECTS. A suite of tools for analysing pedigrees with marker data, including parametric linkage analysis, forensic computations, relatedness analysis and marker simulations. The core of the package is an implementation of the Elston-Stewart algorithm for pedigree likelihoods, extended to allow mutations as well as complex inbreeding. Features for linkage analysis include singlepoint LOD scores, power analysis, and multipoint analysis (the latter through a wrapper to the 'MERLIN' software). Forensic applications include exclusion probabilities, genotype distributions and conditional simulations. Data from the 'Familias' software can be imported and analysed in 'paramlink'. Finally, 'paramlink' offers many utility functions for creating, manipulating and plotting pedigrees with or without marker data (the actual plotting is done by the 'kinship2' package).

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies assertthat kinship2 maxLik paramlink

Version History

new 1.1-6 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.1-6 ← 1.1-5 diff Jul 20, 2025
updated 1.1-5 ← 1.1-4 diff Apr 14, 2022
updated 1.1-4 ← 1.1-2 diff Feb 20, 2022
updated 1.1-2 ← 1.1-1 diff Jan 4, 2018
updated 1.1-1 ← 1.1-0 diff Aug 13, 2017
updated 1.1-0 ← 0.9-9 diff Mar 12, 2017
updated 0.9-9 ← 0.9-8 diff Oct 16, 2016
updated 0.9-8 ← 0.9-7 diff Apr 27, 2016
updated 0.9-7 ← 0.9-6 diff Jul 2, 2015
updated 0.9-6 ← 0.9-1 diff Mar 31, 2014
updated 0.9-1 ← 0.8-3 diff Apr 14, 2013
updated 0.8-3 ← 0.8-0 diff Apr 2, 2013
updated 0.8-0 ← 0.7-0 diff Dec 11, 2012
updated 0.7-0 ← 0.6-1 diff Aug 9, 2012
updated 0.6-1 ← 0.3-1 diff Jan 31, 2012
updated 0.3-1 ← 0.2-1 diff Oct 14, 2011
new 0.2-1 Mar 19, 2011