====== MSVar ======
**[[http://www.rubic.rdg.ac.uk/~mab/software.html|MSVar]]**\\
{{msvar0.4.pdf|documentation}}

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Version 0.4.1.b (7 April 1999)\\
This program is designed to help the user explore the most probable demographic and genealogical histories consistent with a sample of chromosomes typed at one or more loci. It relies on Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation.


===== Program information =====
  * Linux
  * DOS


===== Data type handled =====
  * Microsat



===== Input Files =====
  * There should be no text, characters or extraneous numbers until after the last locus
  * Lines have no significance - it is the sequence of numbers that is important
  * 1. row: number of loci (it will only read this number - so you can have notes, other unused loci etc underneath
  * 2. row: number of alleles (allelic classes) at locus
  * 3. row: counts of chromosomes with the same length
  * 4. row: length corresponding to counts above (has to be relative to something - I have zero here but could be any number; should be in same units - ie use number of repeats)
  * 5. row: number of alles at next locus
  * ...
  * anything you want down here

==== example ====
<code>
8
2
28 20
0 7
2
11 29
0 3
3
12 14 6
0   1 2
2
50 6
0 2
2
42 14
0   1
3
33 2 21
0  1  7
3
16 18 22
0   2  3
2
10 46
0   4
anything you want down here
</code>


===== How to cite =====
  * Beaumont, M.A. (1999) Detecting Population expansion and decline using microsatellites. Genetics, 153, 2013-2029