Citation
If you publish research that uses merlin you have to cite it as follows:
Abecasis, G. R., Cherny, S. S., Cookson, W. O., & Cardon, L. R. (2002). Merlin—rapid analysis of dense genetic maps using sparse gene flow trees. Nature Genetics, 30(1), 97–101. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng786