simplePHENOTYPES: SIMulation of pleiotropic, linked and epistatic phenotypes.

simplePHENOTYPES is a R/CRAN package that makes it possible to simulate multiple traits controlled by loci with varying degrees of pleiotropy. Its ability to interface with both commonly-used marker data formats and downstream quantitative genetics software and packages should facilitate a rigorous assessment of both existing and emerging statistical GWAS and GS approaches. simplePHENOTYPES is also available at https://github.com/samuelbfernandes/simplePHENOTYPES .