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They, however, require fast and accurate statistical methods to handle the growing amount of genetic information made available from genotype arrays and next-generation sequencing technologies.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We introduce a novel statistical method for geopositioning individuals of unknown origin from genotypes. Our method is based on a geostatistical model trained with a dataset of georeferenced genotypes. Statistical inference under this model can be implemented within the theoretical framework of Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation, which represents one of the major recent breakthroughs in statistics, as it does not require Monte Carlo simulations. We compare the performance of our method and an alternative method for geospatial inference, SPA in a simulation framework. We highlight the accuracy and limits of continuous spatial assignment methods at various scales by analyzing genotype datasets from a diversity of species, including Florida Scrub-jay birds Aphelocoma coerulescens, Arabidopsis thaliana and humans, representing 41\u2013197,146 SNPs. Our method appears to be best suited for the analysis of medium-sized datasets (a few tens of thousands of loci), such as reduced-representation sequencing data that become increasingly available in ecology.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: \u00a0http:\/\/www2.imm.dtu.dk\/\u223cgigu\/Spasiba\/<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0gilles.b.guillot@gmail.com<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv703","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,29]],"date-time":"2015-11-29T01:08:39Z","timestamp":1448759319000},"page":"1106-1108","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["Accurate continuous geographic assignment from low- to high-density SNP data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Gilles","family":"Guillot","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark and"},{"name":"2 Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark and University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"H\u00e1kon","family":"J\u00f3nsson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2 Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark and University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Antoine","family":"Hinge","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nabil","family":"Manchih","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ludovic","family":"Orlando","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2 Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark and University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020111585273300_btv703-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e1002657","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pgen.1002657","article-title":"Deep sequencing of plant and animal DNA contained within traditional Chinese medicines reveals legality issues and health safety concerns","volume":"8","author":"Coghlan","year":"2012","journal-title":"PLoS Genet"},{"key":"2023020111585273300_btv703-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"499","DOI":"10.1038\/nrg3012","article-title":"Genome-wide genetic marker discovery and genotyping using next-generation sequencing","volume":"12","author":"Davey","year":"2011","journal-title":"Nat. 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