[adegenet-forum] Principal coordinate analysis on triangular matrix

[Emma Carroll]

Hi,
I have triangular matrices of FST values that I've calculated in
GENEPOP v4 and Arlequin that I would like to perform separate
principal coordinate analyses on. I can't find any information on
whether adegenet or ade4 performs these or PCAs on triangular
matrices. GenAlEx performs a tri-distance matrix PCA (by converting
the distance matrix into a covariate matrix)  but as I can't find much
documentation on the underlying methodology I wanted to confirm the
results. Any help would be appreciated,
kind regards
Emma

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Emma Carroll
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Molecular Ecology and Evolution
School of Biological Sciences
University of Auckland
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