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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 28.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Biol. 2011 Dec;83(6):659–684. doi: 10.3378/027.083.0601

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Distributions of pairwise genetic differences across 783 microsatellites. (A) Pairwise differences for pairs of individuals from the same population, pairs from the same geographic region, and pairs arbitrarily chosen from any two populations. (B) Pairwise differences for pairs of individuals from the same geographic region, separated by region. (C) Pairwise differences for pairs of individuals from the same population, with populations from the same region grouped together. The pairwise difference for a given pair of individuals was computed as one minus their proportion of shared alleles (Mountain and Cavalli-Sforza 1997). For a given pair of individuals, loci for which one or both individuals has missing data were omitted from consideration. Probability densities were estimated from pairwise genetic differences as in Venables and Ripley (1997, p. 181, rectangular kernel with parameter b).