Selecting SNPs informative for African, American Indian and European Ancestry: application to the Family Investigation of Nephropathy and Diabetes (FIND)

Table 2 Measures for balancing information (standard deviation) in the three information contrasts

	Information contrast
Information	\|P_EU-P_AI\|	\|P_EU-P_AF\|	\|P_AI-P_AF\|
Number of SNPs	N = 450	N = 450	N = 400
Information-for-Assignment, In	37.3	37.3	36.7
Mean δ	0.529 (0.022) N = 450	0.528 (0.022) N = 450	0.542 (0.027) N = 400
All SNPs N = 1300
Information-for-Assignment, In	56.5	56.9	58.3
Mean δ	0.351 (0.132)	0.364 (0.121)	0.350 (0.130)

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