I'm not entirely sure how racial abilities are adjusted when a template like vampire is applied. I know if a Human is given that sort of adjustment it hardly applies and I can't really tell by looking at the monster table. From race, what is lost from templates that change race? Like does it include racial modifiers and abilities? Does it make a difference if the template includes the augmented subtype to the race like it does for vampires?
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Apply the changes listed in the template to the creature's pre-existing statistics. Most of the vampire's traits say that it gains new abilities, not that it replaces what it had, type, racial hit dice and Constitution excepted. Anything that's not completely replaced by the template, the creature keeps.
A vampire keeps its human ability score modifier (unless you put it in Constitution, in which case it's lost) and adds those of a vampire. It gains feats and adds bonuses to skills, on top of what it had for being a human. It also keeps any human favoured class bonuses. Its size and speed don't change.
A vampire is an undead (augmented humanoid) and no longer has the humanoid type or human subtype. The significance of the augmented subtype is that the templated creature's abilities (in this case, Create Spawn) may refer to its former type.