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Population structure analysis reveals the genetic relationships between human populations, enabling ancestry inference, stratification correction, and demographic history reconstruction. We present PopulationStructureEngine, a pure-Python pipeline for population genetics analysis.

Simpson's paradox, where a trend appearing in aggregated data reverses when stratified by a confounding variable, poses a fundamental threat to the validity of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that aggregate across ancestral populations. We systematically re-analyze 8,400 genome-wide significant associations from the GWAS Catalog, stratifying each by five major continental ancestry groups (European, East Asian, South Asian, African, Admixed American).