<p>The county council of Värmland is taking part in a larger project which in general consists of surveying malign melanoma within different families. Counties in Sweden are following-up on patients suffering from malign melanoma, which is likely to have inheritable causes. When a suspected heritable malign melanoma is found an investigation is started. A pedigree is drawn, describing the propositus’ family.</p><p>Every individual in the pedigree is represented by a symbol. The appearance of this symbol is determined by: unhealthy/healthy, diseased/alive, man/woman. When the individuals have been identified and the according symbols drawn, the symbols are connected by lines representing kinship.</p><p>Today the pedigrees are drawn by hand using pen and paper. This is a time consuming task and the appearance differ depending on who is drawing the pedigree.</p><p>The result of our problem-analysis is a graphical software tool. On a drawing area the user may draw the symbols on predefined locations. The tool also allows for symbols to be connected with lines. Symbols are connected through selecting a start-symbol and an end-symbol.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:kau-232 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Almgren, Mats, Hansen, Erik |
| Publisher | Karlstad University, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT, Karlstad University, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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