Research Paper Volume 11, Issue 15 pp 5433—5444

Genome-wide association study identifies CBFA2T3 affecting the rate of CSF Aβ42 decline in non-demented elders

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Figure 4. Cryptic relatedness and population stratification checked with genomic identity-by-descent (IBD) and multidimensional scaling (MDS) components. (A) MDS plot of ADNI non-Hispanic White samples. Two samples were outliers based on the second MDS component (at above of plot; 024_S_2239 and 024_S_4084). (B) MDS plot of ADNI samples overlaid on HapMap samples. The ancestry of the HapMap participants is shown by the point color. Abbreviations: ADNI: Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative; ASW: African ancestry in Southwest USA; CEU: Utah residents with Northern and Western European ancestry from the CEPH collection; CHB: Han Chinese individuals from Beijing, China; CHD: Chinese in Metropolitan Denver, Colorado; GIH: Gujarati Indians in Houston, Texas; JPT: Tokyo, Japan; LWK: Luhya in Webuye, Kenya; MEX: Mexican ancestry in Los Angeles, California; MKK: Maasai in Kinyawa, Kenya; TSI: Tuscans in Italy; YRI: Yoruba in Ibadan, Nigeria.