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{"project":"2_test","denotations":[{"id":"18374297-14973781-2052337","span":{"begin":1062,"end":1064},"obj":"14973781"},{"id":"18374297-17928816-2052338","span":{"begin":1104,"end":1106},"obj":"17928816"},{"id":"18374297-11073453-2052339","span":{"begin":1339,"end":1341},"obj":"11073453"},{"id":"18374297-15959808-2052340","span":{"begin":1350,"end":1352},"obj":"15959808"},{"id":"18374297-12781138-2052341","span":{"begin":1361,"end":1363},"obj":"12781138"},{"id":"18374297-17275346-2052342","span":{"begin":1374,"end":1376},"obj":"17275346"},{"id":"18374297-14586639-2052343","span":{"begin":1502,"end":1504},"obj":"14586639"},{"id":"18374297-14973781-2052344","span":{"begin":1581,"end":1583},"obj":"14973781"},{"id":"18374297-17928816-2052345","span":{"begin":1585,"end":1587},"obj":"17928816"},{"id":"18374297-14586639-2052346","span":{"begin":1598,"end":1600},"obj":"14586639"}],"text":"Subjects and Comparative Datasets\nWe sampled 926 Lebanese men who had three generations of paternal ancestry in the country and who gave informed consent for this study, which was approved by the American University of Beirut IRB Committee. Each provided information on his geographical origin, classified into five regions: (1) Beirut (the capital city), (2) Mount Lebanon in the center, (3) the Bekaa Valley in the east, (4) the north, and (5) the south. Each also provided information on his religious affiliation: (1) Muslim, including the sects Shiite and Sunnite, (2) Christian, including the major sects Maronite, Orthodox, and Catholic, and (3) Druze, a distinct religion that has a 1000-year history and whose followers live mainly in Syria and Lebanon.\nComparative data on haplogroup frequencies were obtained from published sources and consenting individuals from the Genographic Public Participation dataset, whose participants can choose to make their data available for subsequent studies. For the Arabian Peninsula, published data from Omani Arabs10, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen11 were used; in addition, we used data from the Genographic Public Participation dataset for individuals originating from Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia (Table S2 in the Supplemental Data). Data from France12, Germany13, England14, and Italy15 were used to construct a representative western European sample as described below, and data from Turkey were also available.16\nCombined Y-SNP plus Y-STR datasets were available from the Arabian Peninsula10, 11 and Turkey16. European data were extracted from the consented Genographic Project Public Participation database (Table S2)."}