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Global Individual Ancestry Using Principal Components for Family Data.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2015
de Andrade Mariza, Ray Debashree, Pereira Alexandre C, Soler Júlia P
Abstract excerpt
Studies of complex human diseases and traits associated with candidate genes are potentially vulnerable to bias (confounding) due to population stratification and inbreeding, especially in admixed population. In GWAS, the principal components (PCs) method provides a global ancestry value per subject, allowing corrections for population stratification. However, these coefficients are typically estimated assuming...
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