Leonid A. Vyazov

Sparse sampling and rare-variant depletion distort PCA visualizations of population structure: recovery with objective-guided manifold learning

Principal component analysis (PCA) is routinely used to visualize population structure, yet how sparse sampling and rare-variant depletion affect low-dimensional plots remains poorly understood. Using spatial simulations, we show that these factors interact to distort visualization of genetic landscapes, producing tria...