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To introduce and validate PedHunter, a software package designed to construct, verify, and query complex pedigrees from large genealogical datasets for medical genetics research.

March 1, 1998Genome ResearchOpen Access

Software for Constructing and Verifying Pedigrees within Large Genealogies and an Application to the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County

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RARicha AgarwalaNational Center for Biotechnology Information LBLeslie G. BieseckerBroad Institute KHKatherine HopkinsLund University

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Computational validation demonstrates accurate pedigree construction from large genealogical databases, facilitating genetic linkage analysis in founder populations.

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To introduce and validate PedHunter, a software package designed to construct, verify, and query complex pedigrees from large genealogical datasets for medical genetics research.
Implemented graph theory algorithms to resolve pedigree connection problems and related genealogical inquiries.
Utilized a structured relational database to store and query population-level genealogical records.
Evaluated software performance and utility using the Amish Genealogy Database (AGDB) from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, formatting outputs directly for LINKAGE software.
Successfully solved two distinct formulations of the pedigree connection problem across extensive genealogical networks.
Generated standardized pedigree files in LINKAGE format ready for downstream genetic linkage analysis.
Demonstrated practical utility by tracing ancestral connections and verifying relationships within the complex Old Order Amish community.

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Agarwala et al. (1998) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1a345e748aa7a5b63ab9fa https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.8.3.211

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Computational validation demonstrates accurate pedigree construction from large genealogical databases, facilitating genetic linkage analysis in founder populations.

Software for Constructing and Verifying Pedigrees within Large Genealogies and an Application to the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County

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