Fig. 9

Geographical Spread of HLA studies: Identified geographical locations are binned to the nearest a Country b Ethnic group. Color gradient representing the count of various HLA alleles with respect to disease or ARD’s studies. China, Japan and the USA report maximum studies and European, Asian and African are the most studied ethnic groups. This figure is generated employing the data analysed from HLA-SPREAD. Figure (a) was created using Maps options in the Tableau software and figure (b) was created using “treemap” package in R