DNA from blood was submitted to Illumina Genome Services for sample preparation and sequencing. Library preparation In order to characterize the spectrum of genetic variation, each of the 108 Qatari genomes were sequenced to a median depth of 37x (minimum
the ELAND/CASAVA v1.9 pipeline. To provide a variant call set when simultaneously considering the entire Qatari sample to compare to the 1092 genomes from 1000 Genomes Project Phase 1 (1000 Genomes) (The 1000 Genomes Project Consortium 2012) the Qatari ge
