I want to perform analyses to determine allelic clines from STR data in order to study the relationship among some populations of a same geographical territory. Could it be possible? Which programs could be use?
However, in general, you may be interested in using redundancy analyses (RDA) to determine what proportion of the variance in your allele frequency data can be explained by environmental factors.
Sorry, the concept "STR" data could be ambiguous. What I want to represent in a map is the variation in heterocigosity values of each marker (STR) included in a 17 X-STR multiplex to view the variability of each marker among the analyzed 14 populations.
Similar methods are being used with SNP data. The difference is that SNPs are biallelic while STRs are multiallelic for each locus or marker.