Journal
GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION
Volume 39, Issue 5, Pages 545-567Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2007021
Keywords
congruence; multiple co-inertia analysis; biodiversity; microsatellite; allelic frequencies
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Working with weakly congruent markers means that consensus genetic structuring of populations requires methods explicitly devoted to this purpose. The method, which is presented here, belongs to the multivariate analyses. This method consists of different steps. First, single- marker analyses were performed using a version of principal component analysis, which is designed for allelic frequencies (% PCA). Drawing confidence ellipses around the population positions enhances % PCA plots. Second, a multiple co- inertia analysis ( MCOA) was performed, which reveals the common features of single- marker analyses, builds a reference structure and makes it possible to compare single- marker structures with this reference through graphical tools. Finally, a typological value is provided for each marker. The typological value measures the effciency of a marker to structure populations in the same way as other markers. In this study, we evaluate the interest and the effciency of this method applied to a European and African bovine microsatellite data set. The typological value differs among markers, indicating that some markers are more e. ffcient in displaying a consensus typology than others. Moreover, effcient markers in one collection of populations do not remain effcient in others. The number of markers used in a study is not a suffcient criterion to judge its reliability. Quantity is not quality.
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