pedIRO is a tool to visualise pedigrees by uploading files in the standart pedigree file format. It can also be used to create a pedigree from scratch.

For both uploaded and freshly created pedigrees, you are able to add, delete and modifiy members sex (male, female), diagnostic (healty, affected) and status (alive, dead).

Where:

• Familly Name is the name of the familly(ies) contained in your pedigree
• UPN (the Unique Primary Number) is used to identify in a unique manner members of your familly.
• Father ID is where you put the UPN of the father of this member. If this is a founder member, you have to put 0 (zero) as UPN value.
• Mother ID is where you put the UPN of the mother of this member. If this is a founder member, you have to put 0 (zero) as UPN value.
• Sex can have one of the following values:
  • 0 is for an unknown sex
  • 1 is for a male
  • 2 is for a female
• Diag. (Diagnostic) can have one of the following values:
  • 0 is for an unknown diagnostic
  • 1 is for a healthy diagnostic
  • 2 is for a deseased diagnostic
• Status can have one of the following values:
  • 0 is when we dont know whether the member is alive or not
  • 1 is when the member is alive
  • 2 is when the member is dead