Hacking Genetic Data III

Hacking Genetic Data III:

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We now know how data is obtained, what a SNP is, and where we can get original data required for a reference population.

This final discussion will talk about what we need to know to take a set of SNP data and determine your ancestry. We will discuss such things as:

1. Basic and/or relevant population genetics and/or phylogenetics2. Genetic distance matrices3. Ways in which 23 & Me constructs ancestry data4. Potential methods & software freely available for doing an analysis

Please bring a computer to follow along as we search through what is freely available online. At the end of this discussion, as a group we should be able to figure out where we can obtain data to set up an analysis, and what type of software we have available. If time permits and I can get a sample data set together beforehand we will run a basic analysis.