Genetic variation in Northern Thailand Hill Tribes: origins and relationships with social structure and linguistic differences

Table 2 Results obtained using 8 different AMOVA (Analysis of Molecular Variance) schemes

			mtDNA		Y STRs
	n. of populations	n. of groups	Φst	Φct	Φst	Φct
1. Matrilocal tribes	3	1	0.14***	-	0.05***	-
2. Patrilocal tribes	7	1	0.06***	-	0.36***	-
3. Sino-Tibetan patrilocal tribes	5	1	0.06***	-	0.33***	-
4. Hmong-Mien patrilocal tribes	2	1	0.05*	-	0.13*	-
5. Patrilocal tribes, Sino-Tibetan vs. Hmong-Mien	7	2	0.06***	0.0	0.34***	-0.05
6. All tribes, Sino-Tibetan vs. Hmong-Mien	10	2	0.09***	0.0	0.17***	-0.01
7. Sino-Tibetan tribes, matrilocal vs. patrilocal	8	2	0.09***	-0.01	0.18***	-0.03
8. All tribes, matrilocal vs. patrilocal	10	2	0.09***	0.0	0.17***	-0.04

The results obtained with AMOVA assuming different groups of populations, or different hierarchical levels, are provided as Φ_st(index of divergence between populations) and Φ_ct(index of divergence between groups) statistics. ***p < 0.001; *p < 0.05.

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