When marker reduction analysis is applied to filter representative markers, dropped markers are no longer used to build
linkage
groups. However, these dropped markers might be still useful for subsequent analyses and should be retained in the output data. When you check this option, the dropped out markers and along with their
K-Means clustering
membership are appended the output data sets ensuring their availability for downstream analyses. In addition,
missing values
for the linkage group
variable
are assigned to the dropped markers.
