Table 1.

Rare variant density and values of Tajima’s D across populations

Population	Slope			Mean Tajima’s D
	Estimate	Standard Error	p-value	Nonsynonymous SNPs	Synonymous SNPs
Tuscan	0.576	0.005	3.30 × 10−15 a	−0.097	0.161
CEPH	0.626	0.004	5.90 × 10−3 a	−0.151	0.140
Japanese	0.644	0.005	6.60 × 10−8 a	−0.197	0.090
Han Chinese	0.677	0.004	9.33 × 10−1	−0.296	−0.032
Denver Chinese	0.677	0.004	1.30 × 10−3 a	−0.265	−0.028
Yoruba	0.694	0.003	8.80 × 10−2	−0.461	−0.213
Luhya	0.701	0.003	<2.2 × 10−16 a	−0.444	−0.215
All	0.902	0.002

Rare variant to total variant slope estimates and standard errors are given for each population and for all the populations pooled. The populations are ranked according to slope. Equality of slopes for contiguous populations (i.e., Tuscan vs. CEPH, CEPH vs. Japanese, etc.) is tested, and the p-value for each comparison is given. Finally, the mean values of Tajima’s D for each population calculated on the basis of nonsynonymous and synonymous SNPs are given.

^a Significant difference between the population and the one immediately below.