Table 2.
Statistics for 2 × 2 contingency tables of the variables: Mitochondrial haplogroup (M9, non-M9) or variant 3394 (C, T) and altitude (high, low)
Variable tested | Dataset* | Sample size | Pearson χ2-value | P value | OR | 95% Confidence intervals | ||
Asymptotic | Exact | |||||||
Haplogroup | 1 | 353 | 34.0 | <0.0001 | 7.39 E-09 | 12.5 | 4.42 | 35.3 |
2 | 1,929 | 274.7 | <0.0001 | 2.71 E-41 | 19.5 | 12.3 | 30.8 | |
3 | 11,302 | 1173.3 | <0.0001 | 4.93 E-129 | 23.7 | 18.4 | 30.5 | |
Variant 3394 | 1 | 353 | 35.77 | <0.0001 | 1.43 E-09 | 13.1 | 4.6 | 36.9 |
2 | 1,929 | 268.48 | <0.0001 | 1.27 E-40 | 17.9 | 11.5 | 27.8 | |
3 | 11,302 | 896.7 | <0.0001 | 5.66 E-106 | 14.7 | 11.7 | 18.4 | |
4 | 11,302 | 1004.8 | <0.0001 | 4.83 E-117 | 16.54 | 13.2 | 20.7 | |
5 | 11,302 | 1272.8 | <0.0001 | 2.76 E-144 | 21.88 | 17.4 | 27.6 |
*Dataset 1: Tibetan sample 1 vs. SW China Han; Dataset 2: Tibetan samples 1 + 2 vs. SW China Han, Taiwan Han, and southern California Han; Dataset 3: Tibetan samples 1 + 2 + Zhao et al. (34) Tibetans vs. SW China Han, Taiwan Han, southern California Han, and NCBI complete mtDNA sequences (last updated 05/17/2010), excluding five M9 sequences from Tibet (34); Dataset 4: Tibetan samples 1 + 2 + Zhao et al. (34) Tibetans + 10 C4a samples from Daccan plateau in southern India vs. SW China Han, Taiwan Han, southern California Han, and NCBI complete mtDNA sequences (last updated 05/17/2010), excluding five M9 sequences from Tibet (34); Dataset 5: Tibetan samples 1 + 2 + Zhao et al. (34) Tibetans + 10 C4a samples from Daccan plateau in southern India + two C4a samples from northern India, + 21 M9 samples from northern India vs. SW China Han, Taiwan Han, southern California Han, and NCBI complete mtDNA sequences (last updated 05/17/2010), excluding five M9 sequences from Tibet (34).