\name{centromere} \alias{centromere} \title{Coordinates of centromere} \description{ Extracts coordinates of centromere for a particular chromosome } \usage{ centromere(chromosome, build="hg18", verbose=FALSE) } \arguments{ \item{chromosome}{character string: "1", ..., "22", "X", or "Y"} \item{build}{character string. Currently only build 'hg18' is provided} \item{verbose}{Logical. Displays build used to annotate the centromere coordinates when TRUE} } \value{ integer: start and stop coordinates of centromere in basepairs } \author{R. Scharpf} \examples{ centromere("1") } \keyword{manip}