smarteigenstrat - reduction of population bias for genetic analyses
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Description
The program smarteigenstrat is part of EIGENSOFT.
The EIGENSOFT package combines functionality from the group's population genetics methods (Patterson et
al. 2006) and their EIGENSTRAT stratification method (Price et al. 2006). The EIGENSTRAT method uses
principal components analysis to explicitly model ancestry differences between cases and controls along
continuous axes of variation; the resulting correction is specific to a candidate marker's variation in
frequency across ancestral populations, minimizing spurious associations while maximizing power to detect
true associations. The EIGENSOFT package has a built-in plotting script and supports multiple file
formats and quantitative phenotypes.
Name
smarteigenstrat - reduction of population bias for genetic analyses
Options
-i genotype file (PED, PACKEDPED, EIGENSTRAT, ANCESTRYMAP or PACKEDANCESTRYMAP format)-o output file
(chisq)
-l logfile (screen output,including error messages)
-q YES for quantitative phenotype or NO otherwise
For quantitative phenotype, sixth column of .ped file or third column of EIGENSTRAT .ind file should be
real numbers. For non-quantitative phenotype, sixth column of .ped or third column should be 'Case' or
'Control'
Synopsis
smarteigenstrat-i <genotypefile> -a <indivfile> -b <snpfile> -p <pcafile> -o <outputfile> -l
<logfile> -k <numpca> -q <qtlmode>
