Table 3 Correlation coefficients of allele frequencies. Below the diagonal: correlations for 237 X-chromosomal alleles. Above the diagonal: correlations for 4682 autosomal alleles [6].

From: Robustness of the inference of human population structure: A comparison of X-chromosomal and autosomal microsatellites

	Africa	Europe	Middle East	C/S Asia	East Asia	Oceania	America
Africa	\	0.77	0.80	0.79	0.73	0.68	0.62
Europe	0.65	\	0.96	0.95	0.83	0.74	0.73
Middle East	0.72	0.95	\	0.95	0.83	0.74	0.71
C/S Asia	0.67	0.93	0.94	\	0.88	0.78	0.77
East Asia	0.61	0.87	0.85	0.90	\	0.81	0.80
Oceania	0.66	0.67	0.75	0.75	0.75	\	0.68
America	0.58	0.78	0.76	0.83	0.92	0.72	\

The mean correlations across entries in the table are 0.78 (X-chromosomal) and 0.79 (autosomal).

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