Table 1 Software discussed in this paper

ACT

Variance components

Measured genotype

UNIX

[1–3]

http://www.epigenetic.org/Linkage/act.html

FASTLINK

Parametric

--

UNIX; DOS; some executables for Mac OS X; Linux; AIX; VMS

[4–10]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Schaffer/fastlink.html

FBAT

--

TDT

UNIX; Linux; Windows; Mac OS; MacOS X

[11–17]

http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~fbat/fbat.htm

GENEHUNTER

Variance components; Haseman-Elston

--

UNIX; Mac OS X

[18, 19]

http://www.fhcrc.org/labs/kruglyak/Downloads

LINKAGE

Parametric

--

UNIX; DOS; VMS; OS2

[20–22]

ftp://linkage.rockefeller.edu/software/linkage

Loki

Variance components

--

UNIX; Linux; Mac OS X; FreeBSD; Open BSD; OSF1; Irix; AIX

[23]

http://loki.homeunix.net

Mendel

Variance components; parametric

Measured genotype

UNIX; Linux; Windows; Mac OS X; OSF/Tru64

[24–26]

http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/software/mendel5

MERLIN

Variance components; Haseman-Elston

Measured genotype

UNIX; Linux

[27]

http://www.sph.umich.edu/csg/abecasis/Merlin

Mx

Variance components

Variance components

UNIX; Linux; AIX; Irix; VMS; some executables for Mac OS X. GUI version for Windows; DOS

[28–30]

http://www.vcu.edu/mx

PAP/jPAP

Parametric

Measured genotype

UNIX; Linux; Windows; Solaris SPARC; Java

[31, 32]

http://hasstedt.genetics.utah.edu

QTDT

--

TDT

UNIX; Linux; Windows; Mac (G5 only)

[33, 34]

http://www.sph.umich.edu/csg/abecasis/QTDT

SAGE

Haseman-Elston; parametric

Measured genotype

UNIX; Linux; Windows; Tru64

[35]

http://darwin.cwru.edu

SEGPATH

Variance components

Measured genotype

UNIX

[36, 37]

http://www.biostat.wustl.edu/~mike/segpath

SOLAR

Variance components

Measured genotype; TDT

UNIX; Linux; Solaris; Irix

[38]

http://www.sfbr.org/solar