S1 Table. Haplotype frequencies for 12 X‐STRs markers in four linkage groups (LGs), N = 117.

LG1 = (DXS8378, DXS10135, DXS10148), LG2 = (DXS7132, DXS10074, DXS10079), LG3 = (DXS10101, DXS10103, HPRTB), LG4 = (DXS7423, DXS10134, DXS10146). S2 Table: Allele frequencies and sample size by locus of the Sorani Kurd. S3 Table: Forensic parameters, Number of alleles (Aall), Gene diversity (GD), polymorphism information content (PIC), match probability (PM), power of discrimination (PD) and Mean Exclusion Chance (MEC) of the Sorani Kurd males. S4 Table: Pairwise p values of linkage disequilibrium test for all pairs of loci using 117 male samples from Sorani Kurdish population. S5 Table: Forensic parameters, Gene diversity (GD), polymorphism information content (PIC), match probability (PM) and power of discrimination (PD), of the five geographical regions Middle East, Africa, Far East Asia, Europe and South America. S6 Table: Pairwise genetic distances (Fst) based on haplotypes of 36 global populations. S7 Table: Average number of pairwise differences using data from 36 populations. Above diagonal: Average number of pairwise differences between populations (PiXY), Diagonal elements: (yellow highlighted): Average number of pairwise differences within population (PiX), Below diagonal: Corrected average pairwise difference (PiXY-(PiX+PiY)/2). S8 Table: Pairwise genetic distances based on FST between the five continents. S9 Table: average number of pairwise differences (FST) within and between continents. Above diagonal: Average number of pairwise differences between populations (PiXY), Diagonal elements (yellow highlighted): Average number of pairwise differences within population (PiX), Below diagonal: Corrected average pairwise difference (PiXY-(PiX+PiY)/2). S10 Table: (A) Q statistics for the five poulations Middle East, Africa, Far East Asia and South America. (B) Pairwise comparisons using Wilcoxon rank sum test with continuity correction. S11 Table: distinctive alleles and private alleles on a continental scale: Middle East, Africa, Far East Asia, South America and Europe. (A) Distinctive alleles, (B) Private alleles. (XLSX)