Table 1. Y chromosome Analyses of Molecular Variance (AMOVA) in the Algerian samples.

Groups	Among groups		Among populations within groups		Within populations
	Y-STR	Y-SNP	Y-STR	Y-SNP	Y-STR	Y-SNP
All populations			3.44 ***	4.59 ***	96.56 ***	95.41 ***
North vs South	0.50 ns	5.53 *	3.18 ***	1.64 *	96.33 ***	92.83 ***
Arabs vs Berbers	0.49 ns	-0.50 ns	3.24 ***	4.80 ***	96.27 ***	95.70 ***
Arabs# vs Berbers vs Reguibate	2.62 *	4.94 *	1.78 ***	1.41 ns	95.59 ***	93.65 ***

*** P<0.0001

* P<0.05; ns: not significant

North = Algiers, Oran, Tizi Ouzou

South = Mozabite, Reguibate, Zenata

Arabs = Reguibate, Algiers, Oran

Berbers = Zenata, Mozabite, Tizi Ouzou

^# Arabs without the Reguibate