Simlink

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

4.12 (April 1997)

a computer program to estimate the probability (“power”) of detecting linkage given family history information on a set of identified pedigrees.

Michael Boehnke ( boehnke@sph.umich.edu)

http://csg.sph.umich.edu/boehnke/simlink.php

FORTRAN

MS-DOS, UNIX(SunOS/..), VMS

• Boehnke (1986), “Estimating the power of a proposed linkage study: a practical computer simulation approach”, American Journal of Human Genetics, 39(4):513-527
• Ploughman, Boehnke (1989), “Estimating the power of a proposed linkage study for a complex genetic trait”, American Journal of Human Genetics, 44(4):543-551
• online documentation (version 4.1, april 1990)