An R package to identify multi-snp effects in nuclear family studies using the GADGETS method

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Documentation for package ‘epistasisGA’ version 1.0.2

• DESCRIPTION file.
• User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.

Help Pages

case	SNP counts for the affected children of case-parent triads.
chrom.fitness.score	A function to assign a fitness score to a chromosome
combine.islands	A function to combine GADGETS results for individual islands into a single dataset.
compute.graphical.scores	A function to compute SNP-pair scores for network plots of results.
dad	SNP counts for the fathers of case-parent triads.
epistasis.test	A function to run a test of the null hypothesis that a collection of SNPs do not exhibit epistasis, conditional upon observed marginal SNP-disease associations.
epistasisGA	'epistasisGA' package
GADGETS	A function to run the GADGETS method
global.test	A function to run a global test of the null hypothesis that there are no SNP-disease associations across a range of chromosome sizes
mom	SNP counts for the mothers of case-parent triads.
network.plot	A function to plot a network of SNPs with potential multi-SNP effects.
permute.dataset	A function to create permuted datasets for permutation based hypothesis testing.
preprocess.genetic.data	A function to pre-process case-parent triad of affected/unaffected sibling data.
run.gadgets	A function to run the GADGETS algorithm to detect multi-SNP effects in case-parent triad studies.
snp.annotations	RSID, REF, and ALT annotations for example dataset SNPs