chrom.bands {quantsmooth}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.


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