Table 1.

Numbers of Sequences (n), Segregating Sites (S), Nucleotide Diversity (π), and Average Number of Nucleotide Differences (k) for Various Subsets of Complete Mitochondrial Sequences (Including the D-Loop) and the Coding Region Alone

	Complete genome				Coding region
	n	S	π × 10-3	k	S	π × 10-3	k
Africa	21	366	4.63	76.6	290	3.69	57.0
New Guinea	21	207	2.42	40.0	136	1.60	24.7
Asia	24	269	2.36	39.0	193	1.79	27.6
Australia	20	265	2.26	37.4	190	1.61	24.9
Europe	8	81	1.49	24.7	51	0.97	15.0

The Nasioi sequence and six Polynesian sequences were excluded as they did not conform to the geographic grouping