\name{readGenes.ped}
\alias{readGenes.ped}
\alias{readGenes.fbat.ped}
\alias{readGenes.pbat.ped}
\alias{readGenes.hapmap.ped}
\title{
  Function to read pedigree file format
}
\description{
  Function to read pedigree file format
}
\usage{
readGenes.ped(filename, columns = c("family", "pid", "father", "mother", "sex"), 
              phase = list(FALSE), quiet = FALSE, missingval = c(0), ...)
readGenes.hapmap.ped(filename, ...)
readGenes.fbat.ped(filename, ...)
readGenes.pbat.ped(filename, ...)
}
\arguments{
  \item{filename}{ Name of the file in which data is stored }
  \item{columns}{Name of the columns in the pedigree file - by default
    points to "family", "pid", "father", "mother", "sex" }
  \item{phase}{1. Yes/No for all (logical scalar)
        2. Yes/No for each Marker (logical vector)
        3. phaseObject (TBD): observation by marker by phase
         probabilities + definitions of contigs + probability of
         contigs
        }
  \item{quiet}{ Logical: whether the progress of reading the file should
  be displayed.}
  \item{missingval}{ Missing values (if any) to obtain missingCodes}
  \item{\dots}{ Additional arguments to function read.table}
}
\author{Gregory R. Warnes \email{warnes@bst.rochester.edu} and Nitin Jain \email{nitin.jain@pfizer.com}}
\examples{
}
\keyword{ misc}