Replication of the principal component analyses of the human genome diversity panel

What is it about?

Independent replication study of the genome-wide variations of Europe and Middle East & North Africa individuals from the human genome diversity panel. Using the publicly available data sets, the study confirmed that different population structures were observed within each geographical region.

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Why is it important?

The study presents state of the art quality control and feature selection for applying principal component analysis to genome-wide data. The study is fully reproducible using publicly available data, R source code, and Docker image.