Figure 4From: Large-scale mitochondrial DNA analysis in Southeast Asia reveals evolutionary effects of cultural isolation in the multi-ethnic population of MyanmarComparison of the Bamar and the Karen people, two main ethnic groups in Myanmar. Pairwise mismatch distribution (MMD) plots (Figure 4, upper panel) indicated different demographic histories with signs of a strong and recent demographic expansion for the Bamar (orange), and evidence of a demographic equilibrium for the Karen people(red). The proportions of individual haplogroups of the two populations are depicted as bar charts next to the MMD-plots, with identical colors corresponding to identical haplogroups. In the lower panel, pairwise Fst-values of Bamar and Karen in comparison with four other Southeast Asian populations were visualized as multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) plot (Stress = 0.032; R2 = 0.995).Back to article page