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QDESCRIBE procedure

Calculates descriptive statistics of molecular markers (M.P. Boer & J.T.N.M. Thissen).

Options

PRINT = string tokens What to print (chromosomes, genome); default chro
DISTANCE = scalar Distance between chromosomes (for plotting purposes); default 10

Parameters

CHROMOSOMES = factors Chromosome for each locus; must be set
POSITIONS = variates Position on the chromosome for each locus; must be set
IDLOCI = texts Labels for the loci
CUMPOSITIONS = variates Saves the cumulative positions of the loci along the genome
NLOCI = variates Saves the number of loci on each chromosome
FIRST = variates Saves the index number of the first locus of each chromosome
LAST = variates Saves the index number of the last locus of each chromosome
LENGTHS = variates Saves the lengths of the chromosomes
MIDDLEPOSITIONS = variates Saves the middle positions of the chromosomes (as cumulative positions)
SEPARATION = variates Saves the positions of the gaps between chromosomes (as cumulative positions)
GENOMELENGTH = scalars Saves the length of the genome
TOTLENGTH = scalars Saves the total length of the genome, including added gaps between chomosomes

Description

QDESCRIBE is mainly used as an auxiliary procedure for plotting the QTL scan profiles, calculated by the QSQTLSCAN and QMQTLSCAN procedures, and plotted by the DQSQTLSCAN and DQMQTLSCAN procedures. QDESCRIBE calculates statistics of the genome and chromosomes on the basis of chromosome identifier and locus position. The chromosome identifiers of the loci are specified by the CHROMOSOMES parameter, and the positions of the loci on the chromosomes are specified by the POSITIONS parameter. If the loci have names, these can be specified by the IDLOCI parameter. The calculated statistics can be saved using the parameters CUMPOSITIONS, NLOCI, FIRST, LAST, LENGTHS, MIDDLEPOSITIONS, SEPARATION, GENOMELENGTH and TOTLENGTH.

Options: PRINT, DISTANCE.

Parameters: CHROMOSOMES, POSITIONS, IDLOCI, CUMPOSITIONS, NLOCI, FIRST, LAST, LENGTHS, MIDDLEPOSITIONS, SEPARATION, GENOMELENGTH, TOTLENGTH.

Action with RESTRICT

Restrictions are not allowed.

See also

Procedures: DQMQTLSCAN, DQSQTLSCAN, QMQTLSCAN, QSQTLSCAN.

Commands for: Statistical genetics and QTL estimation, Graphics.

Example

CAPTION      'QDESCRIBE example'; STYLE=meta
SPLOAD       '%GENDIR%/Examples/F2maizemarkers.gwb'; SHEETNAME='LOCI'
QDESCRIBE    [PRINT=chromosome,genome] CHROMOSOMES=mkchr; POSITIONS=mkpos;\ 
             IDLOCI=idlocus; FIRST=first; LAST=last; NLOCI=nloci;\ 
             LENGTHS=lengths; CUMPOSITIONS=cumpositions;\
             MIDDLEPOSITIONS=middlepositions; SEPARATION=separation;\
             GENOMELENGTH=genomelength; TOTLENGTH=totlength
Updated on March 6, 2019

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