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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 5.

Genetic and linguistic dates of the populations splits.

Cluster Specific to
population		 STRsa NSb NH c S d ρ e ± σ f AgeG g AgeE h AgeB i Linguistic
date		 Population event
P303-β Shapsug and
Circassians		 15 12 7 100 1.5±0.5 1400±500 4300±1400 MIN(1.1-4.8) MAX(1.8-7.8) 3600 Separation of Shapsug-
Circassians branch from
Abkhaz
P303-α Shapsug 15 27 8 92.6 0.55±0.25 500±200 1600±700 MIN(1.0-2.6) MAX(1.4-3.9) 800 Separation of Shapsug
from Circassians
P18-α Ossets-Iron 15 211 49 88.6 1.46±0.48 1400±500 4200±1400 MIN(2.5-5.2) MAX(2.9-6.7) 1300 Split of Ossets into Iron
and Digor
P18-β Ossets-Digor 15 28 12 85.7 1.41±0.48 1300±500 4100±1400 MIN(1.1-2.5) MAX(1.4-3.3) 1300
R1b1b2-β Ossets-Digor 17 24 12 100 0.91±0.31 800±300 2300±800 MIN(1.1-3.0) MAX(1.9-5.3) 1300
P18- γ Ossets-Iron
and Digor		 15 10 5 100 1±0.52 1000±500 2900±1500 - - -
M67-β Chechen and
Ingush		 14 45 12 93 1.56±0.81 1600±800 4800±2500 MIN(1.0-4.0) MAX(1.8-6.7) 5600 Separation of Nakh
populations from
Dagestan ones
M67-γ Chechen and
Ingush		 14 81 22 96 1.84±0.69 1900±700 5700±2100 MIN(0.9-2.5) MAX(1.5-4.1) 5600
M67- α Ingush 14 53 9 81 1.96±1,02 2000±1000 6100±3200 MIN(1.4-3.2) MAX(1.9-4.2) 1400 Split of Nakh branch
into Chechen and Ingush
M67-δ Chechen 14 22 3 100 0.14±0.1 100±100 400±300 - 1400
L3 Chechen 17 24 13 95.8 1.13±0.42 900±400 2900±1100 MIN(0.9-3.3) MAX(11.9-20.4) 1400
Q-α Chechen 17 10 6 100 2.18±1.02 1800±900 5600±2600 MIN(0.6-2.2) MAX(1.2-4.6) 1400
M267(xP58)α Dargins.
Kubachi		 15 16 6 100 1.06±0.5 1000±500 3100±1400 MIN(0.4-1.7) MAX(0.7-3.0) 3400 Separation of Dargins.
Kubachi and Kaitak from
other Dagestan
populations
M267(xP58)β Dargins
Kubachi		 15 15 8 93.3 1.44±0.63 1400±600 4200±1800 MIN(0.7-2.3) MAX(1.2-3.3) 3400
M267(xP58)γ Dargins.
Kubachi.
Kaitak		 15 11 6 100 1.09±0.68 1000±600 3200±2000 MIN(0.5-1.9) MAX(1.0-3.1) 3400
R1a1a*-α Dargins 17 13 5 100 1.77±0.99 1500±800 4500±2500 MIN(0.4-1.4) MAX(0.6-2.7) 1900 Separation of Kubachi
from Dargins
R1b1b2-α Lezghins 17 21 9 100 2.38±0.89 2000±700 6100±2300 MIN(1.0-2.7) MAX(1.3-3.7) 4300 Separation of Lezghins
from Dargins populations
P15*-α Lezghins 15 11 8 90.9 2.45±0.76 2300±700 7100±2200 MIN(1.2-3.7) MAX(1.7-5.6) 4300
a

Number of STRs used for the network

b

Number of samples in cluster

c

Number of haplotypes in cluster

d

Specificity of the clusters (proportion of samples from the indicated population among all samples within the cluster, in percent)

e

Average distance to the founder haplotype (Forster et al., 1996).

f

Estimator for the variance (Saillard et al., 2000).

g

Age of the cluster, obtained from the ρ estimator using the “genealogical” mutation rate (y BP).

h

Age of the cluster, obtained from the ρ estimator using the “evolutionary” mutation rate (y BP).

i

95% CI of age of the NETWORK-identified STR haplotype cluster within the population obtained in the BATWING analysis using the “genealogical rate” (ky BP).