Whole genome sequencing of six ethnic groups from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Tanzania

Project: Consortial Project 3

Released on 15 Aug 2019

This release contains six packages of Illumina whole-genome sequence data and Illumina Omni 2.5M genotype data for individuals from three African countries. Individuals were collected as nominally unrelated (Burkina Faso) or as family trios (Cameroon and Tanzania).

This data was also used to analyse a specific genomic region in Leffler et al. (2017), “Resistance to malaria through structural variation of red blood cell invasion receptors”, Science, 356.

15 Aug 2019

Sequence read data for Mossi individuals from Burkina Faso

EGA Study ID: EGAS00001003648
EGA Data Set ID: EGAD00001005011 (57 individuals)
Method: Illumina HiSeq sequencing

15 Aug 2019

Sequence read data for Bantu individuals from Cameroon

EGA Study ID: EGAS00001003648
EGA Data Set ID: EGAD00001005012 (11 family trios, 6 unrelated)
Method: Illumina HiSeq sequencing

9 Aug 2019

Sequence read data for Semibantu individuals from Cameroon

EGA Study ID: EGAS00001003648
EGA Data Set ID: EGAD00001005013 (8 family trios, 7 unrelated)
Method: Illumina HiSeq sequencing

15 Aug 2019

Sequence read data for Chagga individuals from Tanzania

EGA Study ID: EGAS00001003648
EGA Data Set ID: EGAD00001005015 (23 family trios, 2 family duos, 10 unrelated)
Method: Illumina HiSeq sequencing

15 Aug 2019

Sequence read data for Pare individuals from Tanzania

EGA Study ID: EGAS00001003648
EGA Data Set ID: EGAD00001005016 (22 family trios, 2 family duos, 7 unrelated)
Method: Illumina HiSeq sequencing

15 Aug 2019

Sequence read data for Wasambaa individuals from Tanzania

EGA Study ID: EGAS00001003648
EGA Data Set ID: EGAD00001005014 (23 family trios, 6 family duos, 9 unrelated)
Method: Illumina HiSeq sequencing