centromere {SNPchip}R Documentation

Coordinates of centromere

Description

Extracts coordinates of centromere for a particular chromosome

Usage

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

Arguments

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

Value

integer: start and stop coordinates of centromere in basepairs

Author(s)

R. Scharpf

Examples

centromere("1")

[Package SNPchip version 1.6.0 Index]