What it does

Runs QTL Cartographer for QTL/eQTL mapping. Parse the results.

Example output file

eQTL results file, each row correspond to an eQTL (21 columns; only a part of the file is shown):

trait_name     trait_number    eQTL_number     chr     peak_marker     peak_position   peak_LR peak_LOD        R2      TR2     S       additive        dominance       LOD1_L_m        LOD1_L_pos      LOD1_R_m        LOD1_R_pos      LOD2_L_m        LOD2_L_pos      LOD2_R_m        LOD2_R_pos
geneA          4               2               3       15              79.31           14.576  3.162992        0.1093  0.1915  5.2649  -0.0602         0               12              0.6318          15              0.8678          11              0.5984          15              0.8941
geneB          5               1               6       7               54.41           12.0029 2.6046293       0.0833  0.1621  5.0323  0.0516          0               6               0.4803          7               0.6296          5               0.4237          7               0.6509
geneC          6               1               1       12              81.5            13.2053 2.8655501       0.082   0.2517  154.622 -0.0513         0               11              0.7835          12              0.815           10              0.6549          12              0.815
geneC          6               2               5       6               33.92           12.4418 2.6998706       0.0881  0.2653  161.127 0.0546          0               4               0.2652          6               0.4058          2               0.1031          7               0.4629
geneF          11              1               9       4               11.74           14.4418 3.1338706       0.0937  0.252   72.2489 -0.0562         0               1               0.0014          4               0.1995          1               0.0001          4               0.2035
geneH          12              2               1       9               43.66           16.9545 3.6791265       0.092   0.3558  0.1466  0.0544          0               8               0.4159          9               0.5408          5               0.3295          9               0.5987
geneJ          13              1               7       11              66.41           15.6251 3.3906467       0.0965  0.2625  8.2335  -0.0558         0               9               0.5515          11              0.7408          9               0.5464          12              0.7631