pedSimulate – An R package for simulating pedigree, genetic merit, phenotype, and genotype data

This study aimed to introduce R package pedSimulate, which was built simulate pedigree, genetic merit, phenotype, and genotype data. These are amongst the most important data types that animal breeders quantitative geneticists deal with. Twenty pedigrees with ten generations were simulated applying different combinations of three parameters: variance (10 vs. 20), proportion males selected 20%), pattern for selecting females (random, positively, or negatively based on own phenotype parent average). Males [...]