A tutorial on how not to over-interpret STRUCTURE and ADMIXTURE bar plots

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Lawson, Daniel J ^a   van Dorp, Lucy ^b   Falush, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Milner Centre for Evolution   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALGORITHM; ANCESTRY; DATA; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; GENETIC DRIFT; MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMAN; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLACK PERSON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POPULATION GENETICS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALGORITHMS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY;

EID: 85051476734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05257-7     Document Type: Article

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