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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 11.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Mutat. 2009 Jan;30(1):69–78. doi: 10.1002/humu.20822

Table 2.

Summary of Population Structure Results Using Markers Selected by Informativeness Between Four Continental Populations.

AIMsa K = 5b K = 4
128 Pop1 Pop2 Pop3 Pop4 Pop5 Pop1 Pop2 Pop3 Pop4
EURA (188)c 0.96 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.97 0.01 0.01 0.01
AFR (98) 0.01 0.97 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.01 0.97 0.00 0.01
AMI (105) 0.02 0.01 0.94 0.02 0.01 0.02 0.01 0.94 0.02
EAS (188) 0.03 0.01 0.01 0.93 0.02 0.03 0.01 0.01 0.94
SAS (64) 0.18 0.01 0.01 0.05 0.75 0.64 0.02 0.01 0.33
AFA (88) 0.19 0.76 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.21 0.76 0.01 0.02
PRA (28) 0.58 0.24 0.08 0.06 0.04 0.61 0.23 0.10 0.06
MAM/MXN (66) 0.33 0.02 0.53 0.06 0.06 0.37 0.02 0.54 0.07
96 EURA 0.95 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.01 0.97 0.01 0.01 0.02
AFR 0.01 0.97 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.02 0.97 0.00 0.01
AMI 0.02 0.01 0.93 0.03 0.01 0.03 0.01 0.94 0.03
EAS 0.03 0.01 0.02 0.92 0.02 0.04 0.01 0.02 0.94
SAS 0.21 0.01 0.01 0.08 0.68 0.63 0.02 0.02 0.32
AFA 0.19 0.75 0.01 0.03 0.02 0.21 0.75 0.01 0.03
PRA 0.57 0.23 0.07 0.08 0.04 0.61 0.23 0.08 0.08
MAM/MXN 0.32 0.03 0.51 0.10 0.05 0.36 0.02 0.52 0.09
64 EURA 0.94 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.97 0.01 0.01 0.02
AFR 0.01 0.97 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.02 0.97 0.00 0.01
AMI 0.02 0.01 0.93 0.03 0.01 0.03 0.01 0.93 0.03
EAS 0.03 0.01 0.02 0.91 0.02 0.04 0.01 0.02 0.93
SAS 0.21 0.01 0.01 0.06 0.70 0.67 0.02 0.02 0.29
AFA 0.17 0.75 0.01 0.03 0.04 0.20 0.75 0.01 0.04
PRA 0.56 0.23 0.07 0.05 0.10 0.64 0.23 0.07 0.06
MAM/MXN 0.31 0.02 0.50 0.10 0.07 0.36 0.02 0.50 0.11
48 EURA 0.93 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.96 0.01 0.01 0.02
AFR 0.01 0.97 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.02 0.97 0.01 0.01
AMI 0.03 0.01 0.92 0.03 0.01 0.03 0.01 0.92 0.04
EAS 0.04 0.02 0.03 0.90 0.02 0.04 0.01 0.03 0.91
SAS 0.29 0.01 0.02 0.08 0.59 0.71 0.02 0.02 0.25
AFA 0.16 0.76 0.02 0.04 0.03 0.19 0.76 0.02 0.04
PRA 0.55 0.22 0.07 0.06 0.10 0.63 0.22 0.07 0.08
MAM/MXN 0.31 0.03 0.50 0.10 0.07 0.36 0.02 0.50 0.12
24 EURA 0.86 0.02 0.01 0.03 0.08 0.95 0.01 0.01 0.02
AFR 0.01 0.96 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.02 0.97 0.01 0.01
AMI 0.03 0.01 0.88 0.07 0.01 0.03 0.01 0.89 0.06
EAS 0.04 0.02 0.05 0.86 0.03 0.06 0.02 0.05 0.88
SAS 0.31 0.02 0.03 0.09 0.55 0.80 0.03 0.03 0.15
AFA 0.13 0.75 0.03 0.05 0.04 0.17 0.75 0.03 0.05
PRA 0.52 0.22 0.07 0.07 0.12 0.64 0.22 0.07 0.07
MAMMXN 0.29 0.04 0.44 0.16 0.07 0.35 0.04 0.45 0.17
a

The fraction of membership in each population group determined by STRUCTURE analyses is shown for different numbers of AIMs that were selected using In4 (see Methods). The number of AIMs is shown in the first column for each section of the table.

b

The number of population groups (K) specified in the analysis.

c

The number of subjects in each self identified group is provided for European American (EURA), West African (AFR), Amerindian (AMI), East Asian (EAS), South Asian (SAS), African American (AFA), Puerto Rican (PRA) and a combined group of Mexican (MXN) and Mexican American (MAM) populations. See Methods for additional self-identified population information.