\HeaderA{readGenes.ped}{Function to read pedigree file format}{readGenes.ped}
\aliasA{readGenes.fbat.ped}{readGenes.ped}{readGenes.fbat.ped}
\aliasA{readGenes.hapmap.ped}{readGenes.ped}{readGenes.hapmap.ped}
\aliasA{readGenes.pbat.ped}{readGenes.ped}{readGenes.pbat.ped}
\keyword{misc}{readGenes.ped}
\begin{Description}\relax
Function to read pedigree file format
\end{Description}
\begin{Usage}
\begin{verbatim}
readGenes.ped(filename, columns = c("family", "pid", "father", "mother", "sex"), 
              phase = list(FALSE), quiet = FALSE, missingval = c(0), ...)
readGenes.hapmap.ped(filename, ...)
readGenes.fbat.ped(filename, ...)
readGenes.pbat.ped(filename, ...)
\end{verbatim}
\end{Usage}
\begin{Arguments}
\begin{ldescription}
\item[\code{filename}] Name of the file in which data is stored 
\item[\code{columns}] Name of the columns in the pedigree file - by default
points to "family", "pid", "father", "mother", "sex" 
\item[\code{phase}] 1. Yes/No for all (logical scalar)
2. Yes/No for each Marker (logical vector)
3. phaseObject (TBD): observation by marker by phase
probabilities + definitions of contigs + probability of
contigs

\item[\code{quiet}] Logical: whether the progress of reading the file should
be displayed.
\item[\code{missingval}] Missing values (if any) to obtain missingCodes
\item[\code{...}] Additional arguments to function read.table
\end{ldescription}
\end{Arguments}
\begin{Author}\relax
Gregory R. Warnes \email{warnes@bst.rochester.edu} and Nitin Jain \email{nitin.jain@pfizer.com}
\end{Author}

