Caspar

CASPAR

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

Full Name

Computerized Affected Sibling Pair Analyzer and Reporter

Description

CASPAR’s main novel feature is conditional linkage analyses, in which the population can be subdivided according to criteria at some loci and analyzed for linkage at other loci. CASPAR uses simulation to overcome the problems inherent in such multiple testing.

Author

Richa Agarwala (email: richa@helix.nih.gov)
Alejandro Schaffer (email: schaffer@helix.nih.gov);

Other participants include

Jeremy Buhler
Kenneth Gabbay
Marek Kimmel
David Owerbach

URL

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Schaffer/caspar.html
ftp://fastlink.nih.gov/pub/caspar

Language

OS

UNIX

Reference

Am Soc Hum Genet annual meeting 1995 (Buhler, et. al. American Journal of Human Genetics, 57 Supp, A171 (1995));
Buhler, et. al. (1997) Human Heredity, 47(4):211-222.