Fig 1.
Geographical location of Duhok in the Kurd Autonomous Province of Iraq.
Erbil is province capital and is located about 170 km South East Duhok. (This Fig is similar but not identical to Fig 1 in Ref [13]; It has been included only for illustrative purposes).
Table 1.
Table 2.
Populations used for this study.
Table 3.
HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, and -DQB1 allele frequencies in Iraq Kurds population.
Fig 2.
Neighbour-Joining (NJ) dendrogram constructed with HLA-DRB1 allele frequencies showing relatedness between Iraq Kurds and other World populations. Bootstrap values are 100%.
Fig 3.
Correspondence analysis showing a global view of the relationship between Kurds and Mediterranean, Siberians and other World populations according to HLA-DRB1 (low resolutions) allele frequencies in three dimensions (bidimensional representation).
Table 4.
The twelve most frequent HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1 and -DQB1 extended haplotypes in Kurds.