Linkage Lab: Exporing linkage in kinship testing

Try Linkage Lab here: https://magnusdv.shinyapps.io/linkagelab.

What is Linkage Lab?

Linkage Lab is a pedagogical tool for exploring and understanding how marker linkage affects likelihood ratios (LRs) in kinship testing. It is a companion to KLINK, which is a full-featured software for kinship testing, including support for linkage.

Linkage Lab is described in detail in the KLINK paper: KLINK: A program for kinship testing with pairwise linked STR markers (Vigeland and Gilfillan, 2026).