Nseg_chr {GALLO}

Estimate the number of independent segments in a chromosome based on the effective population size

Description

Estimate the number of independent segments in a chromosome based on the effective population size

Usage

Nseg_chr(chr.table, chr_length, Ne)

Arguments

chr.table

A table containing the chromosomes and the chromosomal length (in centiMorgans).

chr_length

The name of the column where the length of the chromosomes are informed.

Ne

The effective population size.

Details

This function uses a adapted version of the formula proposed by Goddard et al. (2011) to estimate the independent number of segments in a chromosome based on the effective population size.

Value

A data frame with the effevtive number of segments in each chromosome.

References

Goddard et al. (2011) Journal of animal breeding and genetics, Volume 128, Issue 6, Pages 409-421. (doi:10.1111/j.1439-0388.2011.00964.x)