AGHmatrix: Genetic relationship matrices in R

Abstract

Motivation: The resemble between relatives computed from pedigree and genomic data is an important resource for geneticists and ecologists, who are interested in understanding how genes influence phenotypic variation, fitness adaptation, and population dynamics. Results: The AGHmatrix software is an R package focused on the construction of pedigree (A matrix) and/or molecular markers (G matrix), with the possibility of building a combined matrix of pedigree corrected by molecular markers (H matrix). Designed to estimate the relationships for any ploidy level, the software also includes auxiliary functions related to filtering molecular markers, and checks pedigree errors in large data sets. After computing the relationship matrices, results from the AGHmatrix can be used in different contexts, including on prediction of (genomic) estimated breeding values and genome-wide association studies.