Physics (Internal)

What PCA and clustering reveal about human migration, longevity and breast cancer

This event is part of the Physics Department Colloquia Series.

The sequencing of genomes has created a new opportunity for physicists, chemists, mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists and engineers to help make new discoveries in the biological sciences. In this talk, I will describe how two simple techniques, principal component analysis (PCA) and consensus ensemble clustering, give new insights into problems in population genetics, cancer and longevity.