Table 1. .
Individual Samples Description[Note]
| Nation of Origin/Ethnicity | Language Family/Subfamily |
No. of Subjects |
Origin/Collected by | Affymetrix Mapping Array |
| “Caucasian” | Unknown | 42 | Coriell14 | 10K Xba 131 |
| Central France | Romance/Italic | 1 | M.B. | 10K Xba 131 |
| Valencia, Spain | Romance/Italic | 20 | E. Parra (University of Toronto)14 | 10K Xba 131 |
| Italy | Romance/Italic | 2 | Coriell | 10K Xba 131 |
| Southern Italy and Sicily | Romance/Italic | 5 | M.B., B.M., M.D.S. | 10K 2.0 Xba |
| Utah | Germanic | 74 | CEPH | 100K |
| Hanover, Germany | Germanic | 8 | R.D. | 10K 2.0 Xba |
| Eastern England | Germanic | 8 | B.M. | 10K 2.0 Xba |
| Ashkenazi Jewish (USA) | Germanic | 4 | M.B., E.E.Q., L.N.P., M.D.S. | 10K 2.0 Xba |
| Poland | Slavic | 8 | M.B., B.M., M.D.S. | 10K 2.0 Xba |
| Greece (set 1) | Hellenic | 7 | B.M. | 10K 2.0 Xba |
| Greece (set 2) | Hellenic | 1 | Coriell | 10K Xba 131 |
| Basque region (France and Spain) | Basque | 8 | S. Alonso (University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain) | 10K 2.0 Xba |
| Connaught, Ireland | Celtic | 6 | M.D.S., B.M. | 10K 2.0 Xba |
| Armenia (one person per province) | Armenian | 8 | T.S. | 10K 2.0 Xba |
| Finland | Finno-Ugric | 7 | A. de la Chapelle (Ohio State University) | 10K 2.0 Xba |
| Ashkenazi Jewish | Semitic (probably) | 1 | Coriell | 10K Xba 131 |
| Middle East | Semitic (probably) | 2 | Coriell | 10K Xba 131 |
| North Africa | Semitic (probably) | 1 | Coriell | 10K Xba 131 |
| Mende (West Africa) | Niger-Congo | 22 | G. Argyropoulos (Pennington Biomedical Research Center)14 | 10K Xba 131 |
| Burunge (East Africa) | Cushitic | 20 | S. Tishkoff (University of Maryland)14 | 10K Xba 131 |
| Altai Republic (Central Asia) | Turkic/Altaic | 20 | T. Schurr (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)14 | 10K Xba 131 |
| Andhra Pradesh (India): | ||||
| Brahmin (upper caste) | Indic | 11 | L. Jorde, M. Bamshad (University of Utah)14 | 10K Xba 131 |
| Mala (lower caste) | Indic | 11 | L. Jorde, M. Bamshad (University of Utah)14 | 10K Xba 131 |
Note.— All samples described here were collected with appropriate human subject approvals from the various institutions involved and under the principle of informed consent.