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. 2014 Jul 22;15:86. doi: 10.1186/1471-2156-15-86

Table 1.

Discovery and validation criterion for differentiated genomic regions

Criteria Discovery criterion Validation criterion
F ST Region with an over-representation of SNPs possessing high FST values relative to the genome-wide distribution of FST scores
Regional evidence in the top 0.1% of the genome-wide distribution, in which:
Discovered region should contain evidence found in the top 1% of the genome-wide distribution
- Regions are defined by window sizes of 100 kb and 500 kb;
 
- Evidence is defined by the P-value of the exact Binomial test for the proportion of SNPs with FST in the top 1st percentile (100 kb) or 0.1st percentile (500 kb) respectively of the genome-wide distribution score
Differential iHS signals for GIH and INS
At least one SNP with normalized iHS score in the top 0.19% of the genome-wide distribution in one population, but not present in the top 1% of the genome-wide distribution in the other population
At least one SNP in the discovered region should have an iHS score in the top 1% of the genome-wide distribution, but absent in the top 1% of genome-wide distribution of iHS scores in the second population
XP-EHH between GIH and INS Normalized XP-EHH scores should lie in the top 0.01% of the genome-wide distribution At least one SNP in the discovered region should lie in the top 0.5% of the genome-wide distribution of the normalized XP-EHH scores

A description of the population genetics metrics used to discover and validate genomic regions that are differentiated between the north Indian Gujarati population (GIH) and the south Indian Tamil population from Singapore (INS).

Abbreviations:iHS integrated haplotype score, XP-EHH cross-population extended haplotype homozygosity.