Here, we hope to talk about the comparison between different genetic linkage analysis software tools. Several years ago, I used Merlin to do linkage analysis to a NGS genome-wide SNP dataset (family data). Now, I tried to apply some other genetic linkage analysis software tools and hope to know the difference and pros and cons.

The tools are including:

Merlin

HOMOG

The beginning:

1. Merlin
2. HOMOG