An interesting question here is, which method should you use? SmartPCA or scikit-learn? The results are similar, so if you are performing your own analysis, you are free to choose. However, if you publish your results in a scientific journal, SmartPCA is probably a safer choice because it's based on the published piece of software in the field of genetics; reviewers will probably prefer this.
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