Table 6.

Genetic distance estimates between South Indian castes, Europeans, and eastern Asians

	Y-Chromosomea		Autosomal STRsb		mtDNAa
	Europeans	E. Asians	Europeans	E. Asians	Europeans	E. Asians
Tamil Upper	0.1730	0.6379	0.0026	0.0067	0.2059	0.0772
NTS Upper	0.1947	0.7094	0.0046	0.0082	0.2640	0.0356
Tamil Middle	0.2737	0.5075	0.0037	0.0077	0.1861	0.0810
Tamil Lower	0.3652	0.7060	0.0052	0.0069	0.5951	0.0383
Andhra Upper	0.1992	0.9352	0.0023	0.0082	0.3124	0.0284
Andhra Middle	0.2527	0.4431	0.0041	0.0064	0.2401	0.0239
Andhra Lower	0.2693	0.4885	0.0053	0.0070	0.3264	0.0154

(^aSlatkin's linearized F_ST distance; ^bD_SW distance)