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From: Vincent Vizachero <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] OmniPop caution received from FamilyTreeDNA
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:54:00 -0500
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STRUCTURE is, at the risk of oversimplifying, a clustering tool. It
requires a large number of haplotypes as inputs, and contains no
population data.

If you had a database of population types, you could run your own
sample with those to find a genetic affinity. This is essentially
the service that DNA Tribes provides.
Vince


On Mar 14, 2007, at 12:49 PM, Anders Pålsen wrote:

> I noticed earlier this abstract refered to at Dienekes Anthrpology
> Blog regarding use of FTDNA's autosomal panel 1 using STRUCTURE 4.1
> software to assign individuals to population groups, do STRUCTURE
> software and OMNIPOP offer different ways to assign individuals to
> population groups?

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