Table 3.

The 10 alleles most informative about regional ancestry, among 9346 alleles at 783 microsatellite loci. Ancestry information content for alleles was calculated according to the I_n measure of Rosenberg et al. (2003a, eq. 5). Loosely speaking, according to this measure, an allele is most informative about regional ancestry if the knowledge that an individual has the allele enables accurate inferences to be made about the source population of the individual, and if the allele is sufficiently common that it enables ancestry inference for a substantial fraction of all individuals.

Locus	Alternate name of locus	Allele size	Allelic informativeness	Allele frequency
				Africa	Europe	Middle East	Central/ South Asia	East Asia	Oceania	America
GTTTT002P		140	0.169	0.033	0	0.006	0.002	0.002	0.667	0
D6S1006	ATC4D09	194	0.136	0.631	0.364	0.555	0.239	0.036	0	0.014
D12S2070	ATA25F09	95	0.127	0.187	0.078	0.072	0.126	0.403	0.014	0.852
D2S2986	2QTEL47	158	0.124	0.074	0.029	0.016	0.071	0.365	0.569	0.598
ATAC026P		198	0.124	0.541	0.006	0.071	0.027	0	0	0.005
AAT258		145	0.120	0.070	0.007	0.046	0.042	0.021	0	0.604
GATA65E01		121	0.119	0.488	0	0.043	0.015	0.002	0	0
D2S441	GATA8F03	135	0.118	0.045	0.161	0.106	0.223	0.213	0.792	0.755
D7S1808	GGAA3F06	252	0.115	0.008	0.019	0	0.050	0.305	0.030	0.519
TTTA028		187	0.114	0.146	0.487	0.517	0.242	0.021	0	0.019