PHATE-Derived Ancestry Coordinates Capture Continuous Population Structure in Human Genomic Data
Matthew Crispin Scicluna, Shuang Ni, César Miguel Valdez Córdova, Jean-Christophe Grenier, Raphaël Poujol, Mohamed Elyes Kanoun, Joao Felipe Rocha, Kevin R Moon, Sébastien Lemieux, Guy Wolf, Smita Krishnaswamy, Julie Hussin
This paper shows PHATE can better capture continuous population structure in genomic data than PCA or UMAP by tuning scale and balancing populations.
bioRxiv · Nov 3, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics