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. 2005 Jan 19;76(3):463–477. doi: 10.1086/428654

Table 2.

Correlations between Individual Ancestry Estimated by Maximum Likelihood and Principal-Component Analysis

Ancestral Proportions Estimated by Maximum Likelihood
African
European
Native American
PrincipalComponent CorrelationCoefficienta P Valueb CorrelationCoefficienta P Valueb CorrelationCoefficienta P Valueb
1st .9718 .0000 −.8523 .0000 −.2884 .0000
2nd −.0085 1.0000 −.0656 1.0000 .1018 .3458
3rd −.0589 1.0000 −.1619 .0027 .3076 .0000
4th .0048 1.0000 .1034 .3102 −.1477 .0101
a

Pearson correlation coefficient for the comparison of ancestry with principal component.

b

Bonferroni-corrected P value.