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. 2014 Oct 30;8(1):5. doi: 10.1186/s11568-014-0005-z

Table 2.

Proportion of membership coefficient ( Q ) for each of population in each of the six inferred clusters ( K= 6)

Country & Ethnicity (Sample size) Location/State Population ID Clusters ( K= 6)
Malays Proto-Malays Semang Chinese Indians African
Malaysia:
Malays*:
Jawa (19) Johor MY-JV 0.419 0.004 0.010 0.665 0.004 0.001
Bugis (14) Johor MY-BG 0.255 0.027 0.044 0.561 0.008 0.001
Minang (20) Negeri Sembilan MY-MN 0.318 0.011 0.019 0.525 0.125 0.002
Kelantan (18) Kelantan MY-KN 0.222 0.018 0.054 0.542 0.162 0.002
Kedah (24) Kedah MY-KD 0.206 0.028 0.031 0.527 0.208 0.001
Proto-Malaya:
Temuan (49) Negeri Sembilan MY-TM 0.101 0.361 0.053 0.478 0.006 0.001
Negritosa:
Jahai (50) Perak MY-JH 0.012 0.010 0.808 0.168 0.002 0.000
Kensui (30) Kedah MY-KS 0.018 0.006 0.926 0.035 0.015 0.001
Thailand*:
Pattani (14) Pattani TH-PT 0.237 0.013 0.039 0.570 0.140 0.001
Indonesiaa:
Jawa (19) Java ID-JV 0.251 0.029 0.048 0.663 0.008 0.001
Melayu (12) Sumatera ID-ML 0.378 0.005 0.018 0.586 0.012 0.001
Toraja (20) Sulawesi ID-TR 0.444 0.004 0.009 0.540 0.003 0.001
Chinaa:
Jinuo (29) Yunnan CN-JN 0.016 0.005 0.015 0.959 0.005 0.001
Wa (56) Yunnan CN-WA 0.032 0.005 0.021 0.936 0.005 0.001
Indiaa:
Marathi (14) Maharashtra IN-WL 0.002 0.003 0.006 0.006 0.979 0.004
Telugu (24) Andra Pradesh IN-DR 0.003 0.003 0.011 0.006 0.975 0.002
Africab:
Yoruba (60) Nigeria YRI 0.001 0.001 0.003 0.001 0.002 0.992

aThe genotype data obtained from the database of PASNPI Consortium (http://www4a.biotec.or.th/PASNP/).

bThe genotype data obtained from International HapMap Consortium (http://hapmap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/).

*The inclusion criteria are; the sampled individual of a population must be at least three generations of the same population, no parental admixture and communicate daily in the local dialect. The exclusion criteria are those that contradict the inclusion criteria.