Fast Principal Component Analysis of Large-Scale Genome-Wide Data

Principal component analysis (PCA) is routinely used to analyze genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data, for detecting population structure and potential outliers. However, the size of SNP datasets has increased immensely in recent years and PCA of large datasets has become a time cons...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Abraham, Gad, Inouye, Michael
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3981753/