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 # VarExp
 
 The R package **VarExp** provides functions for the estimating of the percentage of phenotypic variance explained by genetic effects, interaction effects or jointly by both effects. This suite of functions are useful for meta-analysis designs where pooling individual genotype data is challenging. A pre-print article related to this work is available [here](bioRkiv link)
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 Data used in this tutorial are included in the ***VarExp*** package.
 
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 # Load the package
 library(VarExp)