Error in plink: --homozyg-window-kb flag provisionally retired

[visse226]

Hi all,

I am really new to bioinformatics and tools such as PLINK.

I am running commands on plink data created from whole genome information. I use PLINK to search for runs of homozygosity.

Running the default option (plink --bfile <nameoffile> --homozyg) works, but as soon as I want to change default settings, for example:
plink --bfile <nameoffile> --homozyg-window-kb 1000 it gives me this error:
"Error: --homozyg-window-kb flag povisionally retired, since it had no effect in PLINK 1.07"

I do not understand this error, since I am using PLINK 1.9 (I used module load and it is also the version that comes up when i use the which command).

Can anyone help me with this? I really need to specify my own parameter settings.

Many thanks!

[visse226]

By the way: I know that in plink 1.07 I will have to change the flag into --homozyg-window-snp 1000
(I hope this is correct indeed), but I want to know what I can do if I want to do it in 1.9 and not 1.07
thanks!