Table 1.

Summary of unique non-SNP VCF entries across the 1000 Genomes phase 3 call sets, comparing before and after normalization

Type	Counts/% of variants	MNP	Indel	Others
Bi-allelic	Total raw count	1 471 391	12 885 278	744 473
	% Need normalization	16.6	2.3	90.9
	% Redundant	5.7	1.4	9.1
	After normalization	1 387 196	12 710 933	676 395
Multi-allelic	Total raw count	2 227 300	5 432 444	2 760 756
	% Need normalization	<0.01	37.2	65.8
	% Redundant	<0.01	1.3	2.8
	After normalization	2 227 281	5 361 318	2 684 752