lacy1989Ped small hypothetical pedigree

lacy1989Ped

Format

An object of class data.frame with 7 rows and 5 columns.

Source

lacy1989Ped is a dataframe containing the small hypothetical pedigree of three founders and four descendants used by Robert C. Lacy in "Analysis of Founder Representation in Pedigrees: Founder Equivalents and Founder Genome Equivalents" Zoo Biology 8:111-123 (1989).

The founders (A, B, E) have unknown parentages and are assumed to have independent ancestries.

id

character column of animal IDs

sire

the male parent of the animal indicated by the id column. Unknown sires are indicated with NA

dam

the female parent of the animal indicated by the id column.Unknown dams are indicated with NA

gen

generation number (integers beginning with 0 for the founder generation) of the animal indicated by the id column.

population

logical vector with all values set TRUE