Large-scale SNP analysis reveals clustered and continuous patterns of human genetic variation

Table 1 Populations and summary statistics for autosomal single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci

Population	Location	Sample size	Heterozygosity^a	Monomorphic SNP loci	% HWE deviations^b
Mbuti	Ituri forest	20	0.280	0.126	0.050
Mende	Sierra Leone	22	0.323	0.074	0.058
Burunge	Tanzania	20	0.341	0.049	0.062
Spanish	Valencia	20	0.346	0.057	0.063
Indian	India	22	0.356	0.042	0.050
Upper caste	India	11	0.357	0.070	0.047
Lower caste	India	11	0.352	0.077	0.040
Nasioi	Melanesia	19	0.280	0.181	0.031
Altaian	Siberia	20	0.350	0.048	0.046
East Asian	USA	20	0.327	0.096	0.045
Chinese	USA	10	0.327	0.135	0.023
Japanese	USA	10	0.324	0.146	0.022
Nahua	Mexico	20	0.295	0.156	0.069
Quechua	Peru	20	0.297	0.127	0.062
Total sample		203	0.377	0.000	0.536

^a Average unbiased heterozygosity.
^b Proportion of deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) using α = 0.05 with standard χ² test.

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