Abstract
Three approaches applicable to the analysis of forensic ancestry-informative marker data—STRUCTURE, principal component analysis, and the Snipper Bayesian classification system—are reviewed. Detailed step-by-step guidance is provided for adjusting parameter settings in STRUCTURE with particular regard to their effect when differentiating populations. Several enhancements to the Snipper online forensic classification portal are described, highlighting the added functionality they bring to particular aspects of ancestry-informative SNP analysis in a forensic context.
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Santos, C., Phillips, C., Gomez-Tato, A., Alvarez-Dios, J., Carracedo, Á., Lareu, M.V. (2016). Inference of Ancestry in Forensic Analysis II: Analysis of Genetic Data. In: Goodwin, W. (eds) Forensic DNA Typing Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1420. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3597-0_19
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