“…These are, a) lineage A (also known as European-Asian, EAS lineage), consisting of at least the sub-lineages A1, A2, A3, (known previously as European, E lineage) and A4 (previously known as Asian, As lineage); b) Lineage B (known previously as African-1 (Afr-1) lineage), consisting of at least two sub-lineages B1 (Afr-1a) and B2 (Afr-1b); c) Lineage C (known previously as African-2 (Afr-2) lineage), previously consisting of the sub-lineages Afr-2a and Afr-2b, and d) lineage D (Asian-American/North American, AA/NA lineage), consisting of at least the sub-lineages, D1 (known previously as North-American (NA) lineage), D2 (known previously as Asian-American-1 (AA1) lineage), and D3 (Asian-American-2 (AA2) lineage). These groups of lineages have more than 95% sequence homology in the long control region (LCR) [5, 7, 12–14]. …”