# Paper on interpreting what PCA means

**URL:** https://isgw-forum.colorado.edu/t/paper-on-interpreting-what-pca-means/715
**Category:** Theory & background
**Created:** [March 3, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://isgw-forum.colorado.edu/t/paper-on-interpreting-what-pca-means/715 "2025-03-03T23:09:50Z")
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### Author: ![bneale](https://isgw-forum.colorado.edu/user_avatar/isgw-forum.colorado.edu/bneale/32/38_2.png) [@bneale](https://isgw-forum.colorado.edu/u/bneale)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://isgw-forum.colorado.edu/t/paper-on-interpreting-what-pca-means/715/1 "2025-03-03T23:09:50Z")

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Here’s the paper that Gil McVean on the interpretation of PCA: [A Genealogical Interpretation of Principal Components Analysis](https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1000686)