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Table 5 Comparative Performance In Sub-Population-level Ancestry classification

From: Human ancestry indentification under resource constraints -- what can one chromosome tell us about human biogeographical ancestry?

Pairwise sub-populations Continent Method Data size Datasets Classification rate (%) Number of attributes used
CEU-TSI europe ethnopred [38] 267 hapmap iii 86.6 ± 2.4 180 SNPs
CHB-JPT east asia ethnopred [38] 250 hapmap iii 95.6 ± 3.9 877 SNPs
LWK-MKK africa ethnopred [38] 294 hapmap iii 95.9 ± 1.5 341 SNPs
JPT-CHB east asia bayesian [39] 9104 own collection 74.9 (77.2***) 15 STR loci
JPT-KOR east asia bayesian [39] 731 own collection 67.9 (63.7) 15 STR loci
CHB-KOR east asia bayesian [39] 731 own collection 69.6 (62.4) 15 STR loci
– europe proposed 503 1000 genome phase 3 76.6* 58 snps**
– africa proposed 661 1000 genome phase 3 87.02* 87 snps**
– east asia proposed 504 1000 genome phase 3 73.3* 68 snps**
  1. *Average accuracy of all pairwise sub-population classifications within the given continent
  2. **Average number of SNPs required in all pairwise sub-population classifications within the given continent
  3. ***Results obtained without normalization
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BMC Medical Genomics

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