Our first target is a 10Mb region on chromosome 6 (NCBI Build 36: 26.5Mb to 36.5Mb) which includes the MHC region (~ 29.7 Mb to 33.3Mb). A total of 2187 SNPs, a subset of 290,449 SNPs in the genome that satisfy various quality and yield criteria (Methods), covering an extended region of approximately 15Mb (24.3Mb to 39.1Mb) are used for phasing the 1469 SNPs in the target region. Genetically, the target region is approximately 6 cM7 and the extended region is approximately 10cM.
