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using several genes to analyze population structure

Hi all,

I have several genes sequenced among three different populations (each population have around 30 individuals). Now I wonder if I can analyze population structure using these variants (SNPs) data and what tools can be used to do this? Many thanks!

Best regards, Emma

snp population structure

1 answer

Hi Emma, you could do something like this, yes. The question would be, how you determined your variants. If they are in VCF format, you could use something like glactools (https://github.com/grenaud/glactools) to generate the required formats to e.g. perform a PCA on your datasets.

That might already give you a broad overview on your dataset and is a commonly performed type of analysis in population genetics. As you don't really have a large panel of individuals to compare to, you might see some spurious samples falling outside of other individuals, but thats simply a problem of having too few individuals and/or variants to look at.

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