centromere              package:SNPchip              R Documentation

_C_o_o_r_d_i_n_a_t_e_s _o_f _c_e_n_t_r_o_m_e_r_e

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Extracts coordinates of centromere for a particular chromosome

_U_s_a_g_e:

     centromere(chromosome, build="hg18", verbose=FALSE)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

chromosome: character string: "1", ..., "22", "X", or "Y"

   build: character string. Currently only build 'hg18' is provided

 verbose: Logical.  Displays build used to annotate the centromere
          coordinates when TRUE

_V_a_l_u_e:

     integer: start and stop coordinates of centromere in basepairs

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     R. Scharpf

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     centromere("1")

