East Asian ancestry reference population East Asian (EAS) reference superpopulation (1KGP) A reference population made up of samples from individuals with an East Asian Ancestry as part of the 1000 Genomes Project. EAS EAS reference superpopulation (1KGP) East Asian Ancestry (1KGP) This category was created to facilitate the grouping of reference populations into the superpopulations they were allocated to in the context of the project in which they were collected. This classification is intended for project provenance traceability and does not imply any kind of biological difference.