{"id":37323,"date":"2011-02-07T02:09:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T10:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=9703"},"modified":"2011-02-10T01:17:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T09:17:06","slug":"personal-genomics-in-two-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/07\/personal-genomics-in-two-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal genomics in two dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/02\/ADMIXRAZIB.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9704\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/02\/ADMIXRAZIB.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><i><b>The Pith:<\/b> In this post I take a different tack at genetic data visualization. Instead of bar plots, I show how genetic relationships can be explored using two dimensional spaces.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/2011\/02\/02\/diminishing-returns-of-ancestry-analysis-for-me\/\">I suggested<\/a> that in some ways I had hit a wall of sharply reduced diminishing returns when it came to understanding my family&#8217;s ancestry. It seems rather clear that we&#8217;re basically South Asians with a minority East Asian component of ancestry. That being said, I&#8217;m still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harappadna.org\/\">happy to be involved with the Harappa Ancestry Project<\/a>. I might have a good sense of my own family&#8217;s background, but <strong>Bengal remains extremely undersampled.<\/strong> An N = 2 is better than none. And, there is still something to be said for understanding how your own lineage is distinctive, or not, in its local geographic context. More specifically I am still curious as to the exact nature of the genetic origins of the Bengali people, especially those on the eastern &#8220;marches&#8221; (where my family comes from).<\/p>\n<p>But there are still interesting things you can do with the genetic material which I have access to. I converted the autosomal SNPs of the raw 23andMe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pith: In this post I take a different tack at genetic data visualization. Instead of bar plots, I show how genetic relationships can be explored using two dimensional spaces.<br \/>\nLast week I suggested that in some ways I had hit a wall of sharply reduc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,82,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthroplogy","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-personal-genomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37323"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37509,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37323\/revisions\/37509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}