Ancestry prediction for non-related samples from a VCF file

Question

[halo22]

Hello All,

I am trying to perform ancestry prediction for a set of non-related individuals and it seems that the tool peddy (https://github.com/brentp/peddy) would be a very easy option. Since these are unrelated samples, creating a PED file is meaningless. Is there a way to run peddy just for the ancestry prediction? I am very new to WGS, I appreciate all your comments and advises.

Thanks :)

Answer 1

[rjd254]

I'm not an expert on this, but here's an example of this software where they just made a ped file with only one person, so it should be possible. https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/questions/481/how-do-i-carry-out-an-ancestry-admixture-test-on-a-single-vcf-file