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)