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How to choose sets of ancestry informative markers: A supervised feature selection approach.
Forensic science international. Genetics - 1 May 2020
Pfaffelhuber Peter, Grundner-Culemann Franziska, Lipphardt Veronika, Baumdicker Franz
Abstract excerpt
Inference of the Biogeographical Ancestry (BGA) of a person or trace relies on three ingredients: (1) a reference database of DNA samples including BGA information; (2) a statistical clustering method; (3) a set of loci which segregate dependent on geographical location, i.e. a set of so-called Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs). We used the theory of feature selection from statistical learning in order to...
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