However most of the low correlation SNPs pairs (80% of the shared loci with a rho < 0.8) were located on chromosome 1 near the ACKR1 (Fig. 3) locus (Chromosome 1: 159,204,875–159,206,500 forward strand), which is known to be adaptive to overcome p.vivax induced malaria [8, 33]. Here, ACKR1 is linked to malaria.