Table 1. Samples in the 1000 Genomes Project phase I integrated variant set.
| Full Population Name | Abbreviation | No. Samples |
|---|---|---|
| African Ancestry in Southwest US | ASW | 61 |
| Luhya in Webuye, Kenya | LWK | 97 |
| Yoruba in Ibadan, Nigeria | YRI | 88 |
| Total African ancestry | AFR | 246 |
| Colombian in Medellin, Colombia | CLM | 60 |
| Mexican Ancestry in Los Angeles, CA | MXL | 66 |
| Puerto Rican in Puerto Rico | PUR | 55 |
| Total American ancestry | AMR | 181 |
| Han Chinese in Beijing, China | CHB | 97 |
| Han Chinese South, China | CHS | 100 |
| Japanese in Tokyo, Japan | JPT | 89 |
| Total Asian ancestry | ASN | 286 |
| Utah residents (CEPH) with Northern and Western European ancestry | CEU | 85 |
| Toscani in Italia | TSI | 98 |
| British in England and Scotland | GBR | 89 |
| Finnish in Finland | FIN | 93 |
| Iberian populations in Spain | IBS | 14 |
| Total European ancestry | EUR | 379 |
The Project has grouped these 1092 samples into four ancestry groups representing the “predominant component of ancestry”: African (AFR), American (AMR), Asian (ASN), and European (EUR) (Abecasis et al. 2012).