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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 18.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Biol Evol. 2011 May 13;28(10):2905–2920. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msr126

Table 3.

Correlation between genetica, linguisticb, and geographic distances

Distance considered Correlation coefficient P-value
Genetics and language 0.64 0.002
Genetics and geography 0.60 0.001
Genetics and language. geography held constant 0.34 0.120
Genetics and geography. language held constant 0.21 0.180
a

Populations of the North Caucasian linguistic family (and their respective languages) from Table 1 were considered, except for the genetic isolates Shapshug, Kubachi and Kaitak with census size less than 10,000 persons, as genetic drift may have caused substantial random fluctuation of the haplogroups frequencies in these populations.

b

Three Chechen populations speaking the same Chechen language were pooled for this analysis. Ossets were not considered because they belong to the Indo-European linguistic family, and linguistic distances cannot be estimated between such divergent languages by this method.