Table 2.

Diversity measures of the Laos sample and 16 other East Asian populations (HVS-I)

Population statistics	Laos	Northern Thailand	Vietnam	Hong Kong	Austro-Asiatic	Daic
Reference	This study	Zimmermann 2009 [17]	Irwin 2008 [23]	Irwin 2009 [24]	Li 2007 [3]	Li 2007 [3]
Number of samples	214	190	187	376	124	772
Proportion of haplotypes	0.68	0.65	0.73	0.65	0.57	0.45
Proportion of unique haplotypes	0.53	0.50	0.59	0.51	0.38	0.31
Mean pairwise differences	7.686 +/- 3.597	7.498 +/- 3.518	7.353 +/- 3.455	7.291+/- 3.421	6.842 +/- 3.243	6.558 +/- 3.103
RMP	0.012	0.015	0.011	0.008	0.023	0.01
Population statistics	Pinghua Han	Southern Indig. Minorities	Tibet	Southern Tibeto-Burman	Guangdong Han	Mixed Han
Reference	Gan 2008 [12]	Gan 2008 [12]	Wen 2004 [4]	Wen 2004 [4]	Chen 2008 [25]	Yao 2002 [7]
Number of samples	197	273	91	405	106	262
Proportion of haplotypes	0.71	0.58	0.69	0.69	0.89	0.87
Proportion of unique haplotypes	0.54	0.42	0.47	0.53	0.80	0.79
Mean pairwise differences	7.918 +/- 3.697	7.536 +/- 3.529	6.317 +/- 3.024	7.759 +/- 3.621	7.178 +/- 3.392	7.620 +/- 3.566
RMP	0.012	0.018	0.02	0.007	0.013	0.006
Population statistics	Hmong	Mien	Northern Han	Southern Han	Island South East Asians
Reference	Wen 2005 [5]	Wen 2005 [5]	Wen 2004 [6]	Wen 2004 [6]	Hill 2007 [26]
Number of samples	167	370	238	473	1025
Proportion of haplotypes	0.63	0.51	0.82	0.74	0.40
Proportion of unique haplotypes	0.50	0.36	0.74	0.63	0.27
Mean pairwise differences	6.269 +/- 2.991	6.574 +/- 3.113	6.860 +/- 3.240	7.407 +/- 3.469	6.716 +/- 3.170
RMP	0.022	0.016	0.009	0.005	0.012

Total N = 5470, nps 16024-16383