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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

Table 5.

The mean and standard deviation of the proportion of alleles differing between two individuals from the same geographic region, and for each region, the mean and standard deviation of the proportion of alleles differing between two individuals from the same population within the region.

Region Mean proportion of alleles differing between pairs of individuals
Same region Same population within a region
Africa 0.672 ± 0.025 0.646 ± 0.034
Europe 0.619 ± 0.013 0.612 ± 0.016
Middle East 0.633 ± 0.018 0.623 ± 0.023
Central/South Asia 0.631 ± 0.016 0.620 ± 0.024
East Asia 0.600 ± 0.013 0.590 ± 0.018
Oceania 0.587 ± 0.046 0.556 ± 0.050
America 0.550 ± 0.055 0.474 ± 0.083