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General usage

Getting started

Flag usage summaries

Column set descriptors

Citation instructions

Standard data input

PLINK 1 binary (.bed)

PROVISIONAL_REF?

PLINK 2 binary (.pgen)

Autoconversion behavior

VCF/BCF (.vcf[.gz], .bcf)

Oxford genotype (.bgen)

Oxford haplotype (.haps)

PLINK 1 text (.ped, .tped)

PLINK 1 dosage

Sample ID conversion

Dosage import settings

Generate random

Unusual chromosome IDs

Allele frequencies

Phenotypes

Covariates

'Cluster' import

Reference genome (.fa)

Input filtering

Sample ID file

Variant ID file

Interval-BED file

--extract-col-cond

QUAL, FILTER, INFO

Chromosomes

SNPs only

Simple variant window

Multiple variant ranges

Deduplicate variants

Sample/variant thinning

Pheno./covar. condition

Missingness

Category subset

--keep-col-match

Missing genotypes

Number of distinct alleles

Allele frequencies/counts

Hardy-Weinberg

Imputation quality

Sex

Founder status

Data management

--make-[b]pgen/--make-bed

--export

--output-chr

--split-par/--merge-par

--set-all-var-ids

--recover-var-ids

--update-map...

--update-ids...

--ref-allele

--ref-from-fa

--normalize

--indiv-sort

--write-covar

--variance-standardize

--quantile-normalize

--split-cat-pheno

--pheno-svd

--pmerge[-list]

--write-samples

Basic statistics

--freq

--geno-counts

--sample-counts

--missing

--genotyping-rate

--hardy

--het

--check-sex/--impute-sex

--fst

--pgen-info

Pairwise diffs

--pgen-diff

--sample-diff

Linkage disequilibrium

--indep...

--r[2]-[un]phased

--ld

Sample-distance matrices

Relationship/covariance

--make-king...

--king-cutoff

Population stratification

--pca

PCA projection

Association analysis

--glm

--glm ERRCODE values

--gwas-ssf

--adjust-file

Report postprocessing

--clump

Linear scoring

--score[-list]

--variant-score

Distributed computation

Command-line help

Miscellaneous

Flag/parameter reuse

System resource usage

--loop-cats

.zst decompression

Pseudorandom numbers

Warnings as errors

.pgen validation

Resources

1000 Genomes phase 3

HGDP-CEPH

FASTA files

Errors and warnings

Output file list

Order of operations

Developer information

GitHub root

Python library

R library

Compilation

Adding new functionality

Discussion forums

Credits

File formats

Setup

Rules of Thumb

Data Exploration 1 — HWE, Allele Frequency Spectrum

Linkage

Regressions

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