This book is organized as follows.

Chapter 2, this chapter, provides an overview of SAS/Genetics software and summarizes related information, products, and services. The next ten chapters describe the SAS procedures and macro that make up SAS/Genetics software. These chapters appear in alphabetical order by procedure name. They are followed by a chapter documenting a SAS macro provided with SAS/Genetics software.

The chapters documenting the SAS/Genetics procedures are organized as follows:

• The Overview section provides a brief description of the analysis provided by the procedure.

• The Getting Started section provides a quick introduction to the procedure through a simple example.

• The Syntax section describes the SAS statements and options that control the procedure.

• The Details section discusses methodology and miscellaneous details.

• The Examples section contains examples that use the procedure.

• The References section contains references for the methodology and examples of the procedure.