This Julia package provides computational routines for fitting and testing variance component models. VarianceComponentModels is one package of the umbrella OpenMendel project.

Note: The three OpenMendel packages (1) SnpArrays, (2) Search, and (3) MendelBase must be installed before any other OpenMendel package will run. It is easiest if these three packages are installed in the above order and before any other OpenMendel package.

Within Julia, use the package manager to install VarianceComponentModels:

Pkg.clone("https://github.com/OpenMendel/VarianceComponentModels.jl.git")

This package supports Julia v0.5 and v0.6.

If you use this analysis package in your research, please cite the following reference in the resulting publications:

Lange K, Papp JC, Sinsheimer JS, Sripracha R, Zhou H, Sobel EM (2013) Mendel: The Swiss army knife of genetic analysis programs. Bioinformatics 29:1568-1570.

This project is supported by the National Institutes of Health under NIGMS awards R01GM053275 and R25GM103774 and NHGRI award R01HG006139.