AIMs frequencies observed in MS and NMO patients and healthy controls from Ribeirao Preto (RP), and in Africans (AFR), Europeans (EUR) and Amerindians (AMZ).

Significant differences (δ > 0.30) between ancestral populations are underlined in the last columns. European, African and Amerindian ancestry contributions and respective R2 values are shown at the bottom of the Table.aAncestry informative marker *1 alleles with their reference sequence number from database of National Center for Biotechnological Information (dbSNP/NCBI).bSingle nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), insertion/deletion (Indel), and Alu insertion (Alu) polymorphism / allele that characterizes the *1 allele.cChromosomal location of each AIM.