secondDegreeRelative {LFSPRO}R Documentation

Second degree relative

Description

Find out the second degree relatives of a given individuals in a family.

Usage

secondDegreeRelative(pedigree, ii)

Arguments

pedigree

A data frame including ID, fID and mID. These IDs should be a positive integer.

ii

Individual index (not ID here). If you want to get the second degree relatives of the second individual in the family, set ii as 2.

Value

The index of individuals who are the second degree relatives to the given individual.

Author(s)

Gang Peng

See Also

firstDegreeRelative, LFSClassic, LFSChompret

Examples

fam.cancer.data <- CombineData(fam.data, cancer.data)
lfsData <- reformatForClassicChompret(fam.cancer.data[[1]])
pedigree <- data.frame(lfsData$ID,lfsData$fID,lfsData$mID,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
names(pedigree) <- c("ID","fID","mID")
secondDegreeRelative(pedigree,2)

[Package LFSPRO version 1.0.5 Index]