In the African cohorts, several significant signatures of selection regions did not contain known stature-associated candidate genes. Consequently, the percentage of selection regions with known candidate genes was lower, i.e., 29.4%, which is almost one-third of that of European cohorts (77.8%). Despite that, this percentage in the African cohorts was almost three-times more than that of the likelihood of occurrence by chance. Nevertheless, we identified five candidate gene regions (2, 4, 8, 9, and 12) in African cohorts that contain important genes for stature, as reported by multiple human GWAS (Table 2).