Phase I 1000 Genomes Project data characteristics.

Fourteen populations released in the Phase I 1000 Genomes Project data release, including the continental group, population abbreviation (POP), short description of each population (POPULATION), number of individuals (N), number of cryptically related individuals dropped in final analyses (REL), total number of loci, variants, low frequency variants (MAF< = 0.03), and private variants. Only autosomal variants were considered. The total loci column refers to the number of variant lines in the VCF file, but not all of these lines contain binnable variants, due to filtering and missing data.