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Archetypal Analysis for population genetics.

Julia Gimbernat-Mayol¹, Albert Dominguez Mantes^2,3,4, Carlos D Bustamante⁴

¹Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

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Archetypal Analysis efficiently identifies genetic clusters from genomic data, offering a faster, unsupervised alternative to existing methods. This approach aids in analyzing large, diverse populations for applications like genome-wide association studies.

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Area of Science:

Population Genetics
Computational Biology
Bioinformatics

Background:

Estimating genetic clusters from genomic data is crucial for diverse applications, including genome-wide association studies (GWAS), demographic history, and polygenic risk scores (PRS).
Current computational methods for genetic cluster estimation are often prohibitively intensive for large-scale biobanks.
Existing unsupervised methods may conflate socially constructed ethnic labels with genetic clusters.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore Archetypal Analysis as an efficient, unsupervised method for identifying genetic clusters and associating individuals.
To demonstrate the computational advantages of Archetypal Analysis, particularly with lower-dimensional genetic data representations.
To provide an alternative to existing methods that avoids the need for exogenous training labels.

Main Methods:

Applied Archetypal Analysis to genomic datasets for unsupervised identification of genetic clusters.
Compared Archetypal Analysis performance and cluster structure against established methods like ADMIXTURE.
Evaluated computational time and memory requirements, especially when using reduced dimensionality representations of genetic data.

Main Results:

Archetypal Analysis provides comparable genetic cluster structures to existing unsupervised methods (e.g., ADMIXTURE).
Archetypal Analysis offers interpretative advantages over traditional methods.
Utilizing lower-dimensional genetic data with Archetypal Analysis results in significant reductions in computational time and memory usage—several orders of magnitude faster than ADMIXTURE.

Conclusions:

Archetypal Analysis is a computationally efficient and effective unsupervised method for genetic cluster estimation.
Its ability to work with reduced genetic data dimensions makes it suitable for large-scale genomic analyses.
The method demonstrates broad applicability across diverse datasets, including humans and canids.