Pedigree file: Only the first three columns of each line in the file are read. These three columns are: id parent1 parent2. Each field must be separated by white space (space or tab). Additional information following the first three columns may be present in the line, but it will be ignored. The pedigree must be organized so that parents must always appear before their children. Genotype file: The file consists of a series of columns with the first column being the id's that are genotyped and successive columns the genotypes at the various markers. The first line must be a white space delimited list with the first field in the list being a label for the id column (it could be any word, e.g "id", as long as there is some word). All the other fields in the first line are the names of the markers. All the other rows must have the id first followed by the genotypes at each of the markers. White space must separate all fields (including alleles of a genotype). Genotypes must have alleles numbered from 1 to n, where n is the number of alleles at the marker. Unknown alleles must use the number 0. Partial genotypes (e.g. 0 3) are allowed. An example genotype file: id marker1 m2 402 1 1 2 1 404 0 0 3 4 405 1 0 2 2 Individuals who are in the genotype file but not the pedigree file are ignored. The order of individuals does not matter. Frequency file: For each marker listed in the genotype file, the frequency file must contain a pair of rows. The first row of the pair must have at least two fields separated by white space. The first field is the marker name and the second field the number of alleles at the marker. Any additional fields on this row are ignored. The second row is a white space separated list of allele frequencies. Only as many frequencies are read as specified by the number of alleles in the first row. If these allele frequencies do not add to approximately 1.0, a warning is issued and analysis continues. Currently, the marker names in the frequency file are not cross referenced with the marker names in the genotype file, so the markers must occur in the order in which they appear in the genotype file. An example frequency file: marker1 2 0.9 0.1 m2 5 0.2 0.197 0.201 0.21 0.19 Sample file: A list of id's for which the statistic will be computed. If each line in the file has only one id then all possible pairs will be formed from the list and the statistic computed. If each line has a pair of id's, then the statistic will be computed only using the pairs listed in the file. Identity coefficient file: Each line consists of a pair of white space separated id's followed by a white space separated list of condensed identity coefficients. The coefficients should appear in the order of Delta1,..., Delta9. The output from the identity coefficient computing program can be used directly.