Table 1. Genetic diversity parameters.
| Number of sequences | Number of haplotypes | Haplotype diversity | Mean number of pairwise differences | Nucleotide diversity | Fs (Fu) | Tajima D | |
| Corsican goats | |||||||
| XIIth century | 10 | 9 | 0.9778±0.0540 | 4.82±2.57 | 0.0371±0.0224 | −3.7113 (p: 0.0200) | 0.2247 (p: 0.6240) |
| XIVth century | 11 | 8 | 0.9273±0.0665 | 4.62±2.45 | 0.0355±0.0213 | −1.6798 (p: 0.1530) | −0.4355 (p: 0.3440) |
| All Medieval | 21 | 14 | 0.9381±0.0388 | 4.65±2.37 | 0.0358±0.0204 | −5.0723 (p: 0.0130) | −0.4484 (p: 0.3590) |
| Present Corsican | 28 | 16 | 0.9524±0.0208 | 7.01±3.40 | 0.0540±0.0291 | −2.8511 (p: 0.1280) | −0.2150 (p: 0.4590) |
| Present Corsicanhaplogroup A only | 26 | 15 | 0.9477±0.0238 | 4.90±2.47 | 0.0377±0.0211 | −4.3581 (p: 0.0380) | −0.0555 (p: 0.5510) |
| All Corsican (Med+Pre.) | 49 | 26 | 0.9473±0.0189 | 6.12±2.96 | 0.0471±0.0253 | −9.8130 (p: 0.0010) | −0.3022 (p: 0.4350) |
| All Corsican (Med+Pre.)haplogroup A only | 47 | 25 | 0.9436±0.0204 | 4.85±2.41 | 0.0373±0.0206 | −11.9233 (p: 0.0000) | −0.0826 (p: 0.5300) |
| Other goats | |||||||
| Present Sardinian | 75 | 46 | 0.9827±0.0052 | 5.68±2.75 | 0.0437±0.0235 | −25.3300 (p: 0.0000) | −0.7342 (p: 0.2470) |
| Present Portuguese | 288 | 104 | 0.9790±0.0030 | 5.30±2.60 | 0.0414±0.0221 | −24.8789 (p: 0.0000) | −0.7741 (p: 0.2560) |
The different parameters for all datasets (see text) have been computed on a 130 bp fragment of the HVI region of the mitochondrial control region (CR). The values are given with their confidence interval (±) and tests with their p-value (p).