Tag: CookHLA

The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) locus is a cluster of genes on chromosome 6 of the human genome that play a crucial role in self/non-self recognition in the immune system. Understanding genetic variation at the HLA locus is essential in human genetics as these genes are frequently associated with GWAS…

Plink –merge-list only outputting fam 0 I am attempting to merge Plink files towards an algorithm I am using (CookHLA). I have already made the bed/bim/fam files for my vcf files. Now, I want to merge them into a single file so I can progress with the algorithm. To do…

Bedtools: Merging Many Bed Files 2 I am using the algorithm CookHLA for my research. As part of its preparation, I need to feed it a bed file representing at least 100 of my samples. I have made the bed files for 500 samples using samtools and bedtools in a…