Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

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

  • Daniel J. Lawson,
  • Lucy van Dorp,
  • Daniel Falush

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05257-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Clustering methods such as STRUCTURE and ADMIXTURE are widely used in population genetic studies to investigate ancestry. Here, the authors provide a tutorial on how to interpret results of these analyses and a tool to test the goodness of fit of the model.