, geochemical elements) to discern which set of variables form coherent subsets that are relatively independent of one another. Those correlated variables are combined into factors which should be representative of the underlying process. Loadings measure the correlations among these variables and relate...
Among these, the PCA was calculated using EIGENSOFT [26]. To obtain independent association signals, multiple SNPs passing the threshold on the same chromosome were clustered as one association locus, and the SNP with the minimum P-value in a cluster was considered as the lead SNP. The ...