Table 1.

Characteristics of the 17 tagging SNPs in the NPY gene

SNP	Base Change	Position in NPY	Minor allele frequency
			Afro-Caribbeans	HapMap YRIa
rs10951003	G→A	Upstream	0.087	0.083
rs12700524	T→C	Upstream	0.100	0.117
rs3905497	C→G	Upstream	0.129	0.142
rs16479	A→G	Upstream	0.063	0.067
rs16149	G→A	Upstream	0.340	0.322
rs16148	C→T	Upstream	0.453	0.474
rs3025123	C→G	Intron 1	0.060	0.086
rs16143	C→T	Intron 1	0.399	0.333
rs3025118	G→T	Intron 2	0.063	0.068
rs16477	G→A	Intron 2	0.164	0.167
rs16135	A→G	Intron 2	0.055	0.075
rs16131	T→C	Intron 3	0.073	0.042
rs16130	C→T	Intron 3	0.164	0.150
rs16476	T→G	Intron 3	0.370	0.397
rs5576	A→G	3′ UTR	0.051	0.050
rs2189495	A→G	Downstream	0.427	0.492
rs16123	A→G	Downstream	0.056	0.060

^aYRI indicates HapMap Yoruba sample from Ibadan, Nigeria