TABLE 1
FROM:
Co-introgression of Y-chromosome haplogroups and the sickle cell gene across Africa's Sahel
Rihab E Bereir, Hisham Y Hassan, Niven A Salih, Peter A Underhill, Luigi L Cavalli-Sforza, Ayman A Hussain, Dominic Kwiatkowski and Muntaser E Ibrahim
BACK TO ARTICLETable 1. The distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroups among sicklers and non-sicklers classified according to their ethnic/linguistic/affiliations to two of the major linguistic families in Africa, AA and NS
| Y | Sicklers | Non-sicklers | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haplogroup | Hausa | OAA | NS | Hausa | OAA | NS |
| P25 | 26 (59%) | 8 (24.2%) | 4 (9%) | 5 (22.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| M78 | 7 (16%) | 5 (15%) | 15 (33%) | 6 (27%) | 28 (64%) | 8 (18%) |
| M13 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 7 (15.5%) | 3 (14%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (24.4%) |
| M267 | 3 (7%) | 5 (15%) | 1 (2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (0.0%) | 4 (9%) |
| M60 | 3 (7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (2%) | 3 (13.6%) | 3 (0.0%) | 1 (1.8%) |
| Others | 5 (11%) | 15 (45.4%) | 17 (38%) | 5 (22.7%) | 16 (36) | 21 (47%) |
| Total | 44 | 33 | 45 | 22 | 48 | 45 |
Abbreviations: AA, Afro-Asiatic; OAA, other Afro-Asiatic speakers; NS, Nilo-Saharan.
The Hausa although AA speaker were placed separate from OAA speakers due to the high frequency of a signature haplogroup (P25) among the Hausa.
Pearson 
2 44.33 P<000 d.f.=5. Tests are adjusted for all pair-wise comparisons within each inner most sub-table using the Bonferroni correction.
