chrom.bands {lodplot}R Documentation

Dataset of human chromosomes and their banding patterns

Description

Dataset used to produce human chromosomal ideograms for plotting purposes.

Usage

data(chrom.bands)

Format

A data frame with 4068 observations on the following 12 variables.

chr
a character vector
arm
a character vector
band
a character vector
ISCN.top
a numeric vector
ISCN.bot
a numeric vector
bases.top
a numeric vector
bases.bot
a numeric vector
stain
a character vector
cM.top
a numeric vector
cM.bot
a numeric vector
n.markers
a numeric vector
p.markers
a numeric vector

Details

The original file gives only the physical map positions. The genetic map positions are interpolated from the Rutgers linkage map (Kong et al 2004).

Source

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/H_sapiens/maps/mapview/BUILD.35.1/ideogram.gz.

References

Kong X, Murphy K, Raj T, He C, White PS, Matise TC. 2004. A Combined Linkage-Physical Map of the Human Genome. American Journal of Human Genetics, 75(6):1143-8.


[Package lodplot version 1.1 Index]