The file KopelmanEtAl2009datafile.txt provides the data used in the
article "Genomic microsatellites identify shared Jewish ancestry
intermediate between Middle Eastern and European populations" by NK
Kopelman, L Stone, C Wang, D Gefel, MW Feldman, J Hillel, NA Rosenberg
(BMC Genetics 10:80, doi:10.1186/1471-2156-10-80 [2009]).

This file includes the genotypes for 399 individuals at 678 loci.
Middle Eastern and European non-Jewish individuals were taken from the
H952 subset of the HGDP-CEPH panel. The remaining 78 Jewish
individuals were newly genotyped for the article.

As described in the article, genotypes of the new 78 individuals have
been aligned in this file to match the allele sizes in previous data
sets from the HGDP.

This file was prepared by Naama Kopelman and Noah Rosenberg, July
2009. The readme was updated in January 2015.

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The file KopelmanEtAl2009datafile.txt includes the exact data used by
Kopelman et al. (2009). The format of the file is that used by the
Structure program.  The first line gives the list of loci. Loci are listed
with an underscore followed by the chromosome number.  After the first
line, each individual is listed on two consecutive lines.  The first five
columns include the following information:

(1) Individual code number --- for HGDP-CEPH individuals, these code
    numbers match the numbers previously used.  
(2) Population code number assigned by us.  
(3) Population name.  
(4) Geographic information about the population (for Jewish populations,
    "Israel").  
(5) Major group for the population (Europe, Jewish, Middle East).

The next columns contain genotypes (measured in base pairs). The
left-to-right order of the genotypes corresponds to the left-to-right
order of the locus names on the first line of the file.  The placement
of genotypes on the first versus second line for an individual is
arbitrary.  Missing data is denoted by "-9".

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