centromeres {PureCN} | R Documentation

## A list of data.frames containing centromere positions.

### Description

A list of data.frames containing centromere positions for hg18, hg19 and hg38. Downloaded from the UCSC genome browser.

### Usage

    data(centromeres)

### Value

A list with three data frames, "hg18", "hg19", and "hg38". Each containes three columns

`chrom`

  a factor with levels `chr1` `chr10` `chr11` `chr12` `chr13` `chr14` `chr15` `chr16` `chr17` `chr18` `chr19` `chr2` `chr20` `chr21` `chr22` `chr3` `chr4` `chr5` `chr6` `chr7` `chr8` `chr9` `chrX` `chrY`

`chromStart`

  a numeric vector

`chromEnd`

  a numeric vector

### References

The script downloadCentromeres.R in the extdata directory was used to generate the data.frames.

### Examples

    data(centromeres)

[Package PureCN version 1.10.0 Index]