Patent ID: 7640113

Claim:
A method performed on a computer device for genetically classifying an individual outside of a sample population based on data from the sample population, the data from the sample population including, for each combination of each diploid haplotype pair of at least two genes and each genetic trait class of a genetic trait, a count of individuals in the sample population associated with both a diploid haplotype pair and a genetic trait class, the method being based on a correspondence analysis on the data from the sample population which provides a first plurality of n-dimensional coordinates for each diploid haplotype pair and a second plurality of n-dimensional coordinates for each genetic trait class, the method comprising the acts of: performing, by the computer device, a linear or quadratic analysis on the data by: producing, by the computer device, a variance-covariance matrix based on the first and the second pluralities of n-dimensional coordinates provided from the correspondence analysis; producing, by the computer device, a classification decision for an individual sample of the individual based on diploid haplotype pairs of the at least two genes of the individual sample and the variance-covariance matrix, for classifying the individual sample into the one of the genetic trait classes; and outputting, from the computer device, the classification decision for display to a user.