Figure 2.

MDS plot of pairwise F_ST distances among 18–locus haplotypes (alleles at duplicated loci Dys385a/b and YCAIIa/b were pooled). Stress value (0.07775) denotes a statistically significant departure from random structure.¹³ Dots colour: light blue=Dagestan groups, black=Arabian groups, Grey=Maghrebian groups, Purple=Sudanese groups, Green=European groups, Orange=SW Asian groups, Yellow=Ethiopian groups. Dots' shape: squares=Arabic-speaking groups; circles=Indo-European-speaking groups; diamonds=North-Caucasian-speaking groups; triangle=Semitic (non-Arabic)-speaking groups (the colour reproduction of this figure is available on the full text version of the manuscript).