groupMembersReturn

savedGroupMembers

score of selected group, which is the group having the
largest minimum group size

savedScore

logical variable indicating to return kinship coefficients
when <code>TRUE</code>.

withKin

numeric matrix of pairwise kinship values. Rows and columns
are named with animal IDs.

kmat

@return A list with members <code>savedGroupMembers</code>,
<code>savedScore</code>, and if <code>withKin == TRUE</code> <code>groupKin</code> as well.

Provides genetic tools for colony management and is a derivation
of the work in Amanda Vinson and Michael J Raboin (2015)
<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4671785/> "A Practical
Approach for Designing Breeding Groups to Maximize Genetic Diversity in a
Large Colony of Captive Rhesus Macaques ('Macaca' 'mulatto')".
It provides a 'Shiny' application with an exposed API.
The application supports five groups of functions:
(1) Quality control of studbooks contained in text files or 'Excel'
workbooks and of pedigrees within 'LabKey' Electronic Health Records
(EHR);
(2) Creation of pedigrees from a list of animals using the 'LabKey' EHR
integration;
(3) Creation and display of an age by sex pyramid plot of the living
animals within the designated pedigree;
(4) Generation of genetic value analysis reports; and
(5) Creation of potential breeding groups with and without proscribed sex
ratios and defined maximum kinships.

R. Mark Sharp

groupMembersReturn: Forms return list of groupAddAssign function

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