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Isn't there an inconsistency when determining population distances when using GEDmatch Oracle or Vahaduo? Let us consider Eurogenes K13 and assume that there are 3 imaginary humans. First one scores 100% West Asian, second one score 100% East Med, third one scores 100% East Asian. According to the algorithm of GEDmatch Oracle and Vahaduo, their Euclidean distances will be equal to each other and therefore all these three humans would be genetically equidistant from each other. However, my intuition says that the first and the second person would be much closer to each other and the third person would be a genetic outlier. It is simply because West Asian and East Med components are closer to each other whereas East Asian component is further from the two. GEDmatch Oracle and Vahaduo regard the components in the calculators as different dimensions and therefore the Euclidean distances between the components are treated as equidistant from each other. Isn't there something wrong with this calculation?
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