kinshipsymbols: a LaTeX package providing math symbols for papers and presentations in statistical genetics

This LaTeX package defines consistent mathematical symbols for statistical genetics, particularly relating to the kinship model and FST.

In addition to providing a long list of symbols, the package has two options that alter the behavior of some of the most common symbols. Option color highlights genotypes (blue), kinship coefficients (dark green), and the standard ancestral allele frequency estimator (red), which is useful for Beamer presentations. Option noT removes the ancestral population T superscript from all symbols that contain it (for simpler presentations).

Installation

This repository contains the compiled STY file in addition to the source INS and DTX files (see make.sh for steps).

You should create a local path for LaTeX packages, if you haven't already done so, and save its value in $TEXMFHOME. For example, if you're in Linux and are going to save things in ~/texmf, add this to your .bashrc:

export TEXMFHOME=$HOME/texmf

The very first time you create this directory you also need to create the $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex/ subtree:

mkdir $TEXMFHOME
mkdir $TEXMFHOME/tex
mkdir $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex

Now, you also create a subdirectory for this package (also only do the first time)

mkdir "$TEXMFHOME/tex/latex/kinshipsymbols/"

Finally, each time there's an update to this package, you copy the STY file into this other directory. If the file is in your current directory, then do this:

cp kinshipsymbols.sty $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex/kinshipsymbols/

Then we update the TeX hash, which has to be done as superuser:

sudo -E texhash

The trick -E allows local variables (such as our $TEXMFHOME) to carry over to the superuser.