KING

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

Full Name

Kinship-based INference for Gwas

Version

1.0.0 (2010)

Description

KING is a toolset that makes use of high-throughput SNP data typically seen in a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for applications such as family relationship inference and population structure identification

Author

Wei-Min Chen (University of Virginia)

URL

http://people.virginia.edu/~wc9c/KING/

Language

C++

OS

Linux (64bit), MS-Windows, MS-DOS, MacOS, Ubuntu (32bit)

EXE

king

Reference

Manichaikul, Mychaleckyj, Rich, Daly, Sale, Chen (2010), “Robust relationship inference in genome wide association studies”, Bioinformatics. 2010 Nov 15;26(22):2867-73