Table 1. Family structure and distribution by religious group of the Indian primary genome scan and additional clinical VL multicase families.

Family Structure	Primary Families			Additional Families
	Hindu	Muslim	Total	Hindu	Muslim	Total
No families	31	27	58	52	27	79
No nuclear families	39	35	74	69	33	102
Nuclear families with 1 affected siba	10	6	16	33	14	47
Nuclear families with 2 affected sibs	24	23	47	30	18	48
Nuclear families with 3 affected sibs	3	5	8	5	1	6
Nuclear families with 4 affected sibs	2	0	2	0	0	0
Nuclear families with 5 affected sibs	0	1	1	1	0	1
No affected offspring	75	72	147	113	53	166
No affected parents	12	13	25	27	11	38
Total No affected individuals	89	87	176	151	67	218
Total No individuals	181	172	353	333	140	473

Numbers are given for successfully genotyped individuals.

^aAll nuclear families with one affected offspring were part of a larger multicase pedigree.