100 'FJ0201.eqn' 1997 1997 '2' 14 30912 0 351740 0 1767856 0 3102704 0 3105425 0 3591827 0 3590561 0 3626891 0 3984776 0 4033215 0 4032553 0 4032573 0 4032574 0 4027554 0 ################################ Pedigree is serially numbered from 1 and parents preceed progeny. "100" is the number of parent groups in the pedigree (in the first 100 lines of the pedigree). They are set to 0. "FJ0201.eqn" is the name of the pedigree file in free format with columns as follows: individual sire dam year subgroup "1997 1997" is the first and last year of birth of cohort. "2" is an alphanumeric code for the subgroup (e.g. sex or breed) of the animals in cohort. "14" is the number of carrier ancestors which are read in the subsequent lines. "30912" is ID of animal and "0" is the inbreeding coefficient of the animal (not relevant here).