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. 2017 Dec 12;8:2062. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00663-9

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Fig. 4 — South African Bantu speakers show relatively higher proportions of runs of homozygosity segments compared to most Bantu speakers. a Total runs of homozygosity (ROH) length in Mb (median per population) and b the number of ROH segments in various African and non-African populations. Violin plots show median (white dot) and range with width indicating frequency. Each color corresponds to a super-population group (Supplementary Table 11). Populations used in this analysis include samples from: West Africa (shown in light green)—Mandinka; Jola; Fula; Wolof, Admixed Africans (shown in light orange)—African Caribbeans in Barbados (ACB); Americans of African Ancestry in SW USA (ASW), Central-West African (shown in magenta): Yoruba in Ibadan, Nigeria (YRI); Ga_Adangbe; Igbo, Khoesan (shown in blue)—G|ui, G||ana, and Kagalgadi (GGK); Ju/Õhoansi (JUO); Karretjie (KAR); ≠Khomani (KHO); Khwe (KHW); Nama (NAM); and !Xuun (XUN), South African Niger-Congo-speakers (shown in light purple)—Zulu; Sotho; Sotho (SOT), Xhosa (XHS); South Eastern Bantu speakers (SEB2); South Western Bantu speakers (SWB). Admixed South Africans (shown in ochre), Coloured from Colesberg (COLC); COL from Wellington (COLW), Eastern African Niger-Congo-speakers (shown in deep green)—Baganda; Banyarwanda; Burundi; Kikuyu; Luhya in Webuye, Kenya (LWK), Nilo-Saharan-speakers (shown in yellow)—Kalenjin, Afro-Asiatic-speakers (shown in red)—Amhara; Oromo; Somali, East Asia (shown in sea green)—Chinese Dai in Xishuangbanna, China (CDX); Southern Han Chinese (CHS); Han Chinese in Bejing, China (CHB); Japanese in Tokyo, Japan (JPT); Kinh in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (KHV), South Asian (shown in deep magenta)—Gujarati Indian from Houston, Texas (GIH), European (shown in brown)—Utah Residents (CEPH) with Northern and Western European Ancestry (CEU); British in England and Scotland (GBR); Iberian Population in Spain (IBS); Finnish in Finland (FIN); Toscani in Italia (TSI); and Admixed Americans (shown in deep purple)—Colombians from Medellin, Colombia (CLM); Mexican Ancestry from Los Angeles USA (MXL); and Puerto Ricans from Puerto Rico (PUR). Further information on these populations is available in Supplementary Table 12