diff --git a/.Rproj.user/shared/notebooks/paths b/.Rproj.user/shared/notebooks/paths
index c1fb968de0b842a57eec7c888ae94bf101d95354..ae1bda6f20d3cfc1b30c7d64046922ffac4813bb 100644
--- a/.Rproj.user/shared/notebooks/paths
+++ b/.Rproj.user/shared/notebooks/paths
@@ -13,3 +13,5 @@
 /home/marie/Documents/stuart_package/stuart/R/tab_mark.R="4023F220"
 /home/marie/Documents/stuart_package/stuart/R/write_rqtl.R="DA3DDAC1"
 /home/marie/Documents/stuart_package/stuart/vignettes/stuart.Rmd="568884A2"
+/mnt/zeus/zeus_mouselab/marie/map_after/map_after.R="6CD0FCD2"
+/mnt/zeus/zeus_mouselab/marie/stuart_estmap/stuart_estmap.R="E9861925"
diff --git a/R/mark_estmap.R b/R/mark_estmap.R
index cac3eee8cdd12b1988b07b1e3269a3f77171e3aa..cc159876b5bb44709a32d69544736ce3d25a6480 100644
--- a/R/mark_estmap.R
+++ b/R/mark_estmap.R
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #' @title Exclude markers depending on estimated genetic map
 #'
 #' @description This function uses a "map" object producted by qtl::est.map() and returns markers which have a high recombination proportion with adjacent markers.
+#' @param tab data frame obtained with tab_mark function.
 #' @param map object of class map
 #' @param dist a value to identify markers with odd recombination fractions. Default is 100.
 #'
@@ -8,9 +9,8 @@
 #'
 #' @export
 #'
-
 #### mark_estmap ####
-mark_estmap <- function(map,dist=100){
+mark_estmap <- function(tab,map,dist=100){
   #initialize variables
   marker <- c()
   chr <- c()
@@ -44,5 +44,8 @@ mark_estmap <- function(map,dist=100){
                                                   T ~ 0))
 
   bad_markers <- tab_map %>% filter(exclude == 1) %>% pull(marker)
-  return(bad_markers)
+
+  tab <- tab %>% mutate(exclude_estmap = case_when(marker %in% bad_markers ~ 1,
+                                                   T ~ 0))
+  return(tab)
 }
diff --git a/R/write_rqtl.R b/R/write_rqtl.R
index d74a85b38ad95d200fa0cb44e2916e07b6c58d0d..314e591bc2a1d8c9c041ddcddcbb847e7168c727 100755
--- a/R/write_rqtl.R
+++ b/R/write_rqtl.R
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ write_rqtl <- function(geno,pheno,tab,ref,par1,par2,par_N=TRUE,prefix,pos,path=N
     tab <- tab %>% filter(exclude_allele==0)
   }
 
+  if("exclude_estmap" %in% colnames(tab)){
+    tab <- tab %>% filter(exclude_estmap==0)
+  }
+
 
   #filter genotypes for non excluded markers in geno file
   geno <- geno %>% select(c(marker,id,allele_1,allele_2)) %>% filter(marker %in% tab$marker)
diff --git a/man/mark_estmap.Rd b/man/mark_estmap.Rd
index 9accd1c32b4c0dc50820ca37d98c88c20e095ef6..00f99654285829a122a73fd1435b0c49d0ad676a 100644
--- a/man/mark_estmap.Rd
+++ b/man/mark_estmap.Rd
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@
 \alias{mark_estmap}
 \title{Exclude markers depending on estimated genetic map}
 \usage{
-mark_estmap(map, dist = 100)
+mark_estmap(tab, map, dist = 100)
 }
 \arguments{
+\item{tab}{data frame obtained with tab_mark function.}
+
 \item{map}{object of class map}
 
 \item{dist}{a value to identify markers with odd recombination fractions. Default is 100.}
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diff --git a/vignettes/stuart.Rmd b/vignettes/stuart.Rmd
index 1c1288bc081f5993f04503f76280244a8dc396b4..ede4f6af31fd5a30ad77f0008bedf85e819e5104 100755
--- a/vignettes/stuart.Rmd
+++ b/vignettes/stuart.Rmd
@@ -197,39 +197,31 @@ plotMap(stuart_cross,stuart_newmap,shift=TRUE)
 It seems to be still 2 problematic markers. We can identify them with the `mark_estmap()`function.
 
 ```{r mark_estmap}
-bad_markers <- mark_estmap(map=stuart_newmap,dist=100)
-print(bad_markers)
+tab2 <- mark_estmap(tab=tab2,map=stuart_newmap,dist=100)
+tab2 %>% filter(exclude_estmap == 1) %>% print.data.frame()
 ```
-
-### Exclusion of last problematic markers
-
-Let's focus on these markers.
-
-```{r bad_markers_tab}
-tab2 %>% filter(marker %in% bad_markers)
-```
-
 We can see that these two markers have correct proportions of each genotypes so they were not excluded. Let's see the alleles of the parental strains for these markers.
 
+
 ```{r bad_markers_annot}
-strains %>% filter(marker %in% bad_markers)
+strains %>% filter(marker %in% c("S6J010381992","S6J205609960"))
 ```
 
 We can see that for these markers, one of the two parents has a missing genotype. In the cases where one parent has a missing of a heterozygous genotype, the `mark_allele()` function does not by default exclude the marker if the observed allele of the genotyped parent correspond to one of the alleles observed in the crossed individuals.
 
+### Exclusion of last problematic markers
+
 To avoid the issues with these situations, you can use the `parNH=FALSE` argument in the `mark_allele()` function. This will exclude all the markers with one parent with a missing or a heterozygous genotype. However, this will exclude a very large number of markers. More than 1000 are in this situation in this cross, but about 700 were excluded with other filters. If we exclude all these markers with `parNH=FALSE` we would lose about 300 markers for only 2 problematic ones.
 
 We rather advise you to keep these markers and identify possible problematic markers with `mark_estmap()` and exlude them. You have two possibilities to do so. First, you can drop these markers in the cross object with `qtl::drop.markers()`:
 
 ```{r drop_markers}
-newcross <- drop.markers(cross=stuart_cross,markers=bad_markers)
+newcross <- drop.markers(cross=stuart_cross,markers=c("S6J010381992","S6J205609960"))
 ```
 
 Or if you prefere to have a correct CSV object that can always be used for QTL analysis, you can delete these markers in the marker tab and create a new cross file with `write_rqtl()`:
 
 ```{r}
-tab2 <- tab2 %>% filter(!marker %in% bad_markers)
-
 good_rqtl_file <- write_rqtl(geno=genos,pheno=phenos,tab=tab2,
                         ref=strains,par1="parent1",par2="parent2",prefix="ind_",pos="cM_cox")
 ```