Details for ParentChecker: a computer program for automated inference of missing parental genotype calls and linkage phase correction

Hu Z, Ehlers JD, Roberts PA, Close TJ, Lucas MR, Wanamaker S, Xu S (2012). ParentChecker: a computer program for automated inference of missing parental genotype calls and linkage phase correction. BMC Genetics 13:9. (DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-13-9). (G6010.02/G7010.07.01).

ParentChecker is a user-friendly tool that uses the segregation patterns of progeny to infer missing genotype information of parental lines that have been used to construct a mapping population. It can also be used to automate correction of linkage phase errors in genotypic data that are in ABH format.

ParentChecker efficiently improves genetic mapping datasets for cases where parental information is incomplete by automating the process of inferring missing genotypes of inbred mapping populations and can also be used to correct linkage phase errors in ABH formatted datasets.