Table 1. Variants discovered by sequencing all HSPA8 exons and introns and 1 Kb upstream of transcript start site in 60 unrelated Chinese.

Variants	Position*	Gene pos.	Alleles	MAF (%)	Heterozygosity
rs11218942	−926	promoter	G > T> C	13.3	0.48
rs2236660	−703	promoter	T > C	14.2	0.24
rs2236659	−357	promoter	T > C	15.8	0.27
rs2236658	−308	promoter	A > G	35.8	0.46
rs2276077	8	5′ UTR	G > A	19.2	0.31
rs2276075	23	5′ UTR	C > T	19.2	0.31
rs1136141	48	5′ UTR	C > T	5.0	0.09
rs2276074	49	5′ UTR	C > G	30.0	0.42
New1†	301	intron1	C > G	19.2	0.31
New2 †	395	intron1	C > G	17.5	0.29
rs11218941	416	intron1	T > C	37.5	0.47
rs4935825	460	intron1	T > G	1.7	0.03
rs11823704	647	intron1	G > T	18.3	0.30
rs10892958	702	intron1	G > C	40.4	0.48
New3†	1255	intron2	T > C	20.0	0.32
New4†	1671	intron3	C > T	12.5	0.22
New5†	2692	intron5	Ins GACTC	12.5	0.22
New6†	2716	intron5	Ins CA	5.8	0.11
rs1461496	3201	intron6	C > T	44.5	0.49
rs1064585	3418	exon7	A > C	5.8	0.11
rs4936770	3950	intron8	A > G	45.0	0.49
rs3763897	4191	intron8	T > A	11.7	0.21
rs4802	4203	exon9	C > T	45.0	0.49

*Reference the transcription start code as +1.

^†Novel SNP not reported in public database before.