Eigenanalysis of SNP data with an identity by descent interpretation

Xiuwen Zheng and Bruce S. Weir

Theoretical Population Biology, 2016, vol. 107, issue C, 65-76

Abstract: Principal component analysis (PCA) is widely used in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and the principal component axes often represent perpendicular gradients in geographic space. The explanation of PCA results is of major interest for geneticists to understand fundamental demographic parameters. Here, we provide an interpretation of PCA based on relatedness measures, which are described by the probability that sets of genes are identical-by-descent (IBD). An approximately linear transformation between ancestral proportions (AP) of individuals with multiple ancestries and their projections onto the principal components is found.

Keywords: PCA; Relatedness; Coancestry; IBD; SNP; Admixture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2015.09.004

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