Table 1

Composition of the selected rheumatoid arthritis case and control population samples

Ancestry
Sample origin
Number of cases
Number of controls

Caucasian
Greek
37
31
Caucasian
Spanish
141
234
Caucasian
American (Whites)
206
105
Amerindian
North American (Amerinds)
98
78
African-American
North American (Blacks)
46
51
African
San (Bushman)
23
57
Asian
Korean
81
68
Asian
Chinese
21
20
Asian
Javanese
66
72
Slavic
Russian
40
73
Total

759
789

These data were extracted from the 13th International Histocompatibility Working Group rheumatoid arthritis samples and are available on the National Center for Biotechnology Information website [28]. For the sample selection procedure, please refer to the Materials and methods section of this article.

Barnetche et al. Arthritis Research & Therapy 2008 10:R26   doi:10.1186/ar2379