Welcome To The FBAT Web Page

FBAT-Toolkit Team (in alphabetical order)

Steve Horvath, Nan Laird, Steve Lake, Christoph Lange, Kristel Van Steen, Lin Wang, and Xin Xu

Visitors since 1/16/2004

Family-Based Association Test Toolkit.

Both FBAT and PBAT provide software for implementing family-based association tests. PBAT also provides power calculations, general data analysis functions for quantitative traits, and screening procedures for multiple traits, markers, and/or models. See the FBAT users manual for more details.

         FBAT --Family Based Association Testing software

                        New! Version 1.5.3 now available. (10/07/2004)

                        New! FBAT-Toolkit User's Manual available. (3/08/2004)


         PBAT --Tools for the statistical analysis of family-based association studies
    New! Short course in FBAT/PBAT

    Other software available at this site.

        XWXW --Linkage analysis of quantitative traits with sib pairs.

        SNPHunter -- a powerful tool for dbSNP search and management.

        LCMT -- Association test over multiple genetic markers.

Please register with us if you plan to download any of the programs on this web page. Email us with your name, the programs you plan to download and your affiliation. If you publish results obtained from using FBAT, please cite Laird, N., Horvath, S. and Xu, X. (2000) "Implementing a unified approach to family based tests of association." Genet Epidemiol 19(Suppl 1): S36-S42 or the FBAT webpage.

Contact fbat@hsph.harvard.edu for suggestions and bug reports.