Does PLINK only deal with SNP?

Question

[Julia_W]

According to the file formats described in PLINK tutorial,it seems the toolset can only analyze SNP.Can PLINK deal with other genetic markers like STR which has multi-alleles and isn't single nucleotide variation?

Answer 1

[chrchang523]

PLINK 1.x can handle multiple-nucleotide variations, but not multiallelic variants. PLINK 2.0 can handle multiallelic variants.