We obtained the merged phase I+II+III release #28 (NCBI build 36, dbSNP b126) HapMap CEU genotype data consisting of 174 samples and 3,908,761 autosomal SNPs. HapMap genotype files for CEU samples and autosomal SNPs were downloaded from the HapMap data archive [1]. The HapMap project website is not longer available, however, genotype data can still be retrieved from the FTP server. In a prelimi...