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This directory contains the several subdirectories with example mx scripts. You are welcome to add your own example directories and scripts. If you wish to add to this website, please zip or tar the files and email them to neale@hsc.vcu.edu and include a descriptive README file.
Note that there is a growing library of Mx scripts at the GenomeUTwin website
| Directory | Description |
|---|---|
| Mx manual | The Mx manual scripts |
| Mx GUI | Examples for the Mx GUI |
| GenomeU Twin Website |
Many scripts and FAQ for twin,
family, QTL and association analyses |
| MTMM | Multi-trait multimethod examples |
| Selection | Raw data & moment approaches to missing & selected data |
| Neale & Cardon | Genetics examples adapted from the Neale & Cardon 92 book |
| Twin-parent | Multivariate twin parent scripts (BG 1994 paper) |
| Swedish | Joint analysis of proband & community samples |
| Assortment | Vanyukov et al assortative mating for substance abuse and ASP |
| Comorbidity | Scripts and data for Neale & Kendler 1995 AJHG paper |
| Kenny & Judd | Scripts and data for fitting nonlinear and interactive models |
| Mackenzie & Spreng | Scripts and data for fitting moderator variable |
| QTL | Eaves et al 1996 Behav Genet Multivariate Multilocus Multipoint QTL analysis |
| Ordinal | Ordinal data analysis with missing data |
| Association | Fulker/Cherny allelic association with stratification test |
| Depression | Sullivan et al Major Depression Meta-analysis Am J Psychiat 2000 |
| Anxiety | Hettema et al Generalized Anxiety Disorder Meta-analysis Am J Psychiat 2001 |
| Sex-limitation Cholesky | Neale Sex-limitation presentation at BGA 2002 |
| Schizophrenia
meta-analysis |
Sullivan et al (submitted) Arch Gen Psychiat
Schizophrenia meta-analysis |
| Joint
Linkage
& Association |
Posthuma et al (2004) Behav Genet 34 (1) Comb
link
& association tests in Mx |
| Varimax Rotation
Script |
Contributed by Peter Hoon, self-documented varimax
rotation script |
| Zygosity
scripts
|
Neale 2003 Zygosity Twin Research 6:235-9.
ACE model scripts for when zygosity diagnosis is
less than perfect
|
| #loop & #define scripts
|
Example scripts using #loop and #define in Mx 1.63ff
|
|
Appendices Neale et al 2006 BG
|
Appendices for Neale et al "Extensions to the Modeling of Initiation and
Progression" Behavior Genetics Article
|
|
Andrews et al 2007 Twin Research
|
Script for underreporting estimation from Twin data
|