Analysis of population structure: a unifying framework and novel methods based on sparse factor analysis.
We consider the statistical analysis of population structure using genetic data. We show how the two most widely used approaches to modeling population structure, admixture-based models and principal components analysis (PCA), can be viewed within a single unifying framework of matrix factorization....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-09-01
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| Series: | PLoS Genetics |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2940725?pdf=render |