Figure 3.

Effect of the founding maternal population size on the expected number of haplotypes for the New Zealand Maori sample. The size of the founding population from eastern Polynesian is indicated on the x axis; the y axis shows the frequency of 20,000 simulations that the indicated number of alleles (1–10) are present in a sample of 54 sequences after the founding population has expanded to 50,000 females is on the y axis. The estimated founding population size on this criterion is 40–90 females to give four haplotypes as observed.