Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Factor analysis of ancient population genomic samples

  • Olivier François,
  • Flora Jay

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18335-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Principal component analysis is often used in studies of ancient DNA, but does not account for the age of the samples. Here, the authors present a factor analysis (FA) which corrects for this by including the effect of allele frequency drift over time.