An overview of STRUCTURE: Applications, parameter settings, and supporting software

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Porras Hurtado, Liliana ^a,b   Ruiz, Yarimar ^b   Santos, Carla ^b   Phillips, Christopher ^b   Carracedo, Ángel ^b   Lareu, Maria V ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Case control association studies; CLUMPP; Distruct; Population structure; STRAT; Stratification; STRUCTURE

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883521771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00098     Document Type: Article

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