Table 3. Analysis of Molecular Variance (AMOVA) in four groups of linguistic population isolates.

		mtDNA		Y chromosome
Group	Populations	among pop.	p-value	among pop.	p-value
Eastern Alps Linguistic Islands	SAP-SAU-TIM	0.105	0.000	0.226	0.000
	SAP-TIM	0.136	0.000	0.187	0.000
	SAP-SAU	0.090	0.000	0.227	0.000
	SAU-TIM	0.090	0.000	0.261	0.000
Cimbrians	LES-LUS	0.023	0.073	-	-
Ladins	LVB-LVF-LVG	0.035	0.000	0.047	0.000
	LVB-LVG	0.055	0.001	0.031	0.026
	LVF-LVG	0.030	0.007	0.045	0.006
	LVB-LVF	0.020	0.002	0.062	0.008
Aromuns	AAP-ADU-AKR-AST	0.020	0.006	0.093	0.000
	AAP-ADU	0.006	0.253	0.204	0.000
	AKR-AST	0.024	0.043	0.040	0.005

Population acronyms and references: LES Lessinia, SAP Sappada, SAU Sauris and TIM Timau (This study); LVB Val Badia and LVG Val Gardena [10], LUS Luserna and LVF Val di Fassa ([66], Coia V. unpublished data); AAP Andon Poci, ADU Dukasi, AKR Krusevo and AST Stip [67].