Allegro licence agreement

Allegro is a complete linkage analysis package. Its features include parametric and non-parametric LOD score calculations and various features intended for genetic mapping. The current version is 2.0. Please report bugs and installation problems to allegro@decode.is.

If you use Allegro in your work please cite:

Gudbjartsson DF, Thorvaldsson T, Kong A, Gunnarsson G, Ingolfsdottir A (2005) Allegro version 2. Nature Genetics. 37: 1015-1016

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