Table 1.

List of areas/populations with a high Hp 1 allele frequency and its relationship to the incidence of scurvy

	Hp 1 allele frequency	Comment
Easter Island (Rapa Nui)	0.86	Very remote place (Delanghe et al. 2007)
Hudson Bay (Inuit)	0.80	Extremely low vitamin C intake (10 mg/day) (Fediuk 2000)
Madagascar	0.60	Hp 1 allele frequency on the island exceeds the one of the founding populations (Buettner-Janusch et al. 1973; Cavalli-Sforza et al. 1994)
Papuna New Guinea (Awyu)	0.80	Scurvy unknown (Klein 1954; Hill et al. 1986)