From d780c0ea250f489f31cd29c14d18f3443427f134 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yaoling Yang <91947158+YaolingYang@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:28:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update explanations for pbwt -paintSparse parameters

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 painting-pipeline/Compute haplotype components (HCs)/README.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/painting-pipeline/Compute haplotype components (HCs)/README.md b/painting-pipeline/Compute haplotype components (HCs)/README.md
index f237b11..53b54bf 100644
--- a/painting-pipeline/Compute haplotype components (HCs)/README.md	
+++ b/painting-pipeline/Compute haplotype components (HCs)/README.md	
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The first step is to run the below command for each chromosome (i from 1 to 22,
 
 ```pbwt -readVcfGT chr${i}_UKBall.vcf.gz -paintSparse chr${i}_UKBall 100 2 500```
 
-The last parameter controls the sparsity of matches (the larger, the sparser), which is important for datasets with large numbers of individuals, such as the UK Biobank.
+The explanation of each parameter can be found by typing `pbwt`. In specific, the last parameter controls the sparsity of matches (the larger, the sparser), which is important for datasets with large numbers of individuals, such as the UK Biobank.
 
 (for other input formats please just follow the pbwt instructions on reading data)