Need clarity on analysis of ordinal phenotypic data?

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Any leads to how this data can be transformed to distances? Transformation techniques? software? Currently reading on Mahalanobis distances and Gowers (dis)similarity coefficient but there is still too much ground to cover. All productive detours are welcome. Thank you

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