Phenotype file

Description

Phenotype file contains information about individual phenotype values (e.g. height, BMI, age, etc.). This is in-house developed and PedConvert uses this file format to combine pedigree and phenotype files. This format is only used in quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis. Dicotomous trait (qualitative trait) is included in pedigree file.

Format

Columns are: pedigree ID, person ID, Phenotype(s). Pedigree ID and Person ID must correspond to IDs in pedigree file. First line includes number of phenotypes and phenotype names.

    1     Age
    1  1  45
    1  3  56
    2  2  34
    2  3  67

Multiple phenotypes example (missing value is x):

    3     Height   Age   HDL
    1  1  167      34    2.3
    1  3  164      45    1.0
    2  2  198      78    x
    2  3  179      56    2.7

Last line of the file must be empty line!

Naming

Phenotype file is usually named as phen.dat.