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