lacy1989Ped small hypothetical pedigree

Usage

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