Table 4.
No. of Differences |
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Samplea | Silent | Replacement | Fisher’s Exact Test(P) |
Africans (n=163): | |||
Polymorphic | 67 | 9 | |
Fixed | 45 | 0 | .014 |
Non-Africans (n=73): | |||
Polymorphic | 36 | 9 | |
Fixed | 45 | 0 | .002 |
Global (n=236): | |||
Polymorphic | 74 | 9 | |
Fixed | 45 | 0 | .026 |
Note.— Nos. of SNPs and fixations found at silent and replacement sites are contrasted with a Fisher’s exact test (see the “Subjects and Methods” section).
See table 1 for population samples. n = no. of chromosomes.