NAME

       unknown - identify possible genotypes for unknowns

SYNOPSIS

       A program to rapidly identify which genotypes are possible for individuals typed as unknowns in the input
       pedigree.

       unknown [ -cl ]

DESCRIPTION

       unknown  infers  possible  genotypes  and  mating  combinations  for  parents  with unknown genotypes for
       ilink(1), mlink(1) and linkmap(1).

OPTIONS

       -c     Use conditional allele frequencies.

       -l     Choose a good set of loop breakers automatically.

RETURN VALUE

       0     Successful completion

ERRORS

       10    File not found
       255   Failure

EXAMPLES

       Normally, unknown(1) is run immediately prior to its sister programs, ilink(1), mlink(1) and  linkmap(1),
       like this:

       unknown
       mlink

FILES

       unknown(1)  reads  the  two  files  pedfile.dat  and  datafile.dat  as its own input and produces various
       temporary files that are used as input to the next  program.  These  temporary  files  are  ipedfile.dat,
       upedfile.dat, speedfile.dat and newspeedfile.dat.

NOTES

       unknown(1) is part of the FASTLINK package, which is a re-implementation of the LINKAGE suite of computer
       tools  that help investigate genetic linkage as first proposed G.M. Lathrop, J.M. Lalouel, C. Julier, and
       J. Ott.

AUTHORS

       Dylan Cooper, Alejandro Schaffer, and Tony Schurtz based on work originally by Jurg Ott, Ph.D, et. al.

       This manual page was written by Elizabeth  Barham  <lizzy@soggytrousers.net>  for  the  Debian  GNU/Linux
       system (but may be used by others).

WORD-WIDE-WEB

       http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBResearch/Schaffer/fastlink.html

SEE ALSO

       ilink(1), linkmap(1), lodscore(1), mlink(1).

                                                 April 15, 2003                                       UNKNOWN(1)