Table 1.

Diversity measures of the Laos sample and four other East Asian populations (HVS-I and HVS-II)

Population statistics	Laos	Northern Thailand	Vietnam	Hong Kong	Mixed Han
Reference	This study	Zimmermann 2009 [17]	Irwin 2008 [23]	Irwin 2009 [24]	Yao 2002 [7]
Number of samples	214	190	187	376	262
Proportion of haplotypes	0.79	0.74	0.83	0.80	0.94
Proportion of unique haplotypes	0.64	0.58	0.73	0.69	0.89
Mean pairwise differences	10.932 +/- 4.990	10.790 +/- 4.932	10.620 +/- 4.859	10.652 +/- 4.862	10.964 +/- 5.000
RMP	0.008	0.011	0.009	0.005	0.004

Total N = 1229, nps 16024-16497 30-407