st: How would you solve this problem?

[Joe Trubisz <jtrubisz@mac.com>]

Hi...

I hope someone could point me in the right direction as to how to  
proceed in solving this problem.

I have 12-scatter plots of genome data. They have about 18K points in  
each plot.
Each plot was generated from a perl program which generated 12- 
datasets according to some chaos theory, and infiled into stata.

All of the datasets are related (genetically) though some have a  
distant relationship between them.

What I want to do (and don't know the right way) is to say: I have  
datasetX and datasetY. I wish to know what the proper statistical test 
(s) would be to compare them, and say when I'm done that there is a  
relationship between them or not. Ideally, comparing all 12 sets at  
the same time would be great, but if not, that's fine as well.

Can anyone suggest where I should start looking to solve this problem?

TIA,
Joe
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