Table 1.

The comparisons of success ratios of population origin estimation with cross-validation using the same 38 AIM-InDel loci among intercontinental populations (the populations from the same continent studied here were considered a whole) from five continents.

Population origins	American	African	European	East Asian	South Asian
Population of American origin	61.96%	1.44%	23.63%	6.92%	6.05%
Population of African origin	1.21%	98.49%	0.30%	0.00%	0.00%
Population of European origin	4.77%	0.00%	91.25%	0.00%	3.98%
Population of East Asian origin	0.20%	0.00%	0.00%	99.80%	0.00%
Population of South Asian origin	9.61%	0.00%	5.11%	0.61%	84.67%