Pairwise D′ LD plots in non-African and African populations. European and East Asian samples were plotted together as “non-Africans” because they showed similar levels of LD (data not shown). Red tags indicate the physical position of each SNP across the genomic region studied. Blue and green lines label the SNPs (MAF>10%) used for CD209 and CD209L, respectively, in the LD plot. For CD209, 47 SNPs presented an MAF>10% in the African sample and 5 in the non-African, whereas, for CD209L, 18 SNPs showed an MAF>10% in Africans and 20 in non-Africans. The high prevalence of SNPs with MAF>10% for CD209 in Africa is due to the presence of the highly divergent cluster A, which presents 35 diagnostic variants with a frequency of 15%.