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Re-visualizing European ancestry

Explore the insightful Dodecad ADMIXTURE results focused on Western Europeans and their ancestral components by population.

Written byRazib Khan
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I decided to take the Dodecad ADMIXTURE results at K = 10, and redo some of the bar plots, as well as some scatter plots relating the different ancestral components by population. Don't try to pick out fine-grained details, see what jumps out in a gestalt fashion. I removed most of the non-European populations to focus on Western Europeans, with a few outgroups for reference. Here's a table of the correlations (I bolded the ones I thought were interesting):

W AsianNW AfricanS EuropeNE AsianSW AsianE AsianN EuropeanW AfricanE AfricanS Asian

W Asian*-0.01-0.180.040.810.59-0.640.390.20.04

NW African**0.19-0.160.23-0.09-0.190.260.67-0.11

S European***-0.38-0.03-0.27-0.42-0.11-0.02-0.36

NE Asian****-0.060.50.26-0.04-0.1-0.07

SW Asian*****0.21-0.620.740.59-0.13

E Asian******-0.270.0800.14

N European*******-0.34-0.28-0.31

W African********0.86-0.04

E African*********-0.07

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