Manual/Tutorial
A greatly updated tutorial is available in English and in Spanish! The tutorial is also available from within Familias (version 3.2.2 and above) and contains a guide of all features of the software.
The manual is available in pdf format and in HTML format.
Further guides and useful links are available at this site
Help/Courses
Occationally, courses are given for user of Familias, see this site for more up to date information. One course was held in cooperation with the English Speaking Working Group (ESWG) with the ISFG (May, 2014), this repository contains slides and information. Several courses following the initiative of the EUROFORGEN project have also been held, e.g. the train-the-trainers courses. The homepages (2013 and 2014) contain useful information to users of Familias 3.
If you have installation problems or if you have other technical problems, please contact Daniel Kling.
More complex questions and requests for consultancy work may be sent to the Familias developers, Daniel Kling, Thore Egeland or Petter Mostad.
Fileassociation: To associate files with Familias (works with version 3.1.8 and above), right click any .fam file, select "O pen with" and "Select standard program…" (or similar). Select the box "Always use this…", then select"Browse" and find the path/location to where you have installed Familias, usually somwhere in C:\Program (x86)\Familias3\. Select Familias3.exe and you are done! From now on you only have double click a .fam file and it is automatically opened in Familias!
The CAP test 2015: The case involves a calculation of monozygotic twins. We may indeed perform calculations in Familias. The following text describes one approach. Define both the children in Familias with genotype data as indicated in the exercise. Open the Blind search interface and search for Direct matches, select the scale versus siblings options and set all dropout/dropin/typing error parameters to zero. The LR should now appear comparing the hypotheses
H1: Monozygotic twins
H2: Full siblings
Well, twins may acutally be half siblings with different fathers but we assume full siblings is the alternative in this exercise. An alternative approach is two perform calculation in the regular interface of Familias by defining the same two pedigrees (works in version 3.2 and above). H1 is defined as a Direct relation between the two children.
Installation instructions
The latest version of Familias will install for most Windows PC:s. For Apple users, and other OS users, a Windows environment can be simulated. In contrast to previous version (<2.0), the new Familias does not rely on .dll files and can be used as a stand-alone software, i.e. the software can be run from a USB drive. The installation should be straightforward. Should any difficulties be encountered the user are encouraged to contact Daniel Kling. (For installation instructions on the old versions, please see this site)
English and Spanish instruction videos available here.
There has been several incidents of anti-virus software (particularly Symantec products) reporting Familias installation as a threat. This is a false alarm and has been forwarded to Symantec. Users are advised to ignore the message and run the installation anyway. If the error persists or if the installation fails, it may be that administrator rights are needed. The false alarm is caused by the fact that the new Familias is not a widely known software (even though it has quite some users), and as a new line in the defense against new threats the anti-virus software has implemented algorithms to search for "new, unknown" software/code.