Studies that use these new approaches have been slightly more successful than GWAS at recruiting a greater diversity of populations. For example, the international Exome Aggregation Consortium hosts data on genetic variants from more than 60,000 samples, of which 8.6% are from people of African ancestry, 9.5% are from people of Latin American ancestry, and 60.4% are from people of European ancestry8 (see page 154). The remaining samples (21.5%) are from south Asia, east Asia and the Middle East. Similarly, the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine whole-genome sequencing project of the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is growing and currently holds 62,000 samples, of which 50% are from European Americans, 30% are from African Americans, 10% are from Hispanics or Latin Americans, and 8% are from Asians.
