Figure 1

Major ethnolingusitic groups from Angola and population samples used in this study. A) Map of Angola depicting the core areas of the country's major ethnolinguistic groups and sampled locations in the Namibe province (modified from [21]). The area encompassing the sampled locations is shaded. B) Map of Africa with the approximate locations of the population groups used in the present analysis. Populations are coded with numbers. The correspondence between numbers and populations is given in Additional files 4 and 5. Major geographic regions are encircled.