(a) General description of studies used in this review

Country	Year	Population	n	Typing method	Loci typed	Comments
Bots	2005		55	SSP	DRB, DQB1	55 HIV negative compared to 74 HIV positive [7]
Moza	2010	Mostly Black	202	SSOP	A, B, DRB1	91.8% Black, rest admixture. Assane et al. [35, 48, 55]
RSA	2012	Black	200	SBT, SSP	A, B, C, DRB1	Blacks from different ethnolinguistic groups in RSA. Paximadis et al. [18, 35, 48]
RSA	2012	Caucasians	102	SBT, SSP	A, B, C, DRB1	English and Afrikaner ancestry. Paximadis et al. [18, 35, 48]
RSA	2002	Tamil/Natal	51	SSOP	A, B, C	Hammond [35, 48, 56]
RSA	2000	Black Zulu/Natal	100	SSOP	A, B	Could not distinguish A∗0301 from A∗0303N, and B∗0705 from B∗0706 [35, 37, 48, 57]
RSA	2006	Black/Tswana	41		A, B	Coetzee et al. [35, 48, 58]
RSA	2004	Black	112	SSP	DRB1, DQB1, DPB1	112 Sclerosis controls compared to cases [59]
Zam	2002	Black/Lusaka	44	SSOP	A, B, C	Alleles similar at exons 2 and 3 could not be distinguished [35, 48, 60, 61]
Zim	2002	Shona/Harare	230	SSOP	A, B, C, DPB1, DQA1, DQB1, DRB1	Louie [35, 48, 62]