TABLE 1
FROM:
Genetic evidence for a family-based Scandinavian settlement of Shetland and Orkney during the Viking periods
S Goodacre, A Helgason, J Nicholson, L Southam, L Ferguson, E Hickey, E Vega, K Stefánsson, R Ward and B Sykes
BACK TO ARTICLETable 1. Summary statistics for Y-chromosome haplotypes
| Population | N | k |
Private
haplotypes (%) | Gene diversity | k
|
Average k from
10 000 samples of 50 chromosomes (95% CI) |
Average k from
10 000 samples of 150 chromosomes (95% CI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norway, Sweden and Denmark | 311 | 94 | 43.62 | 0.958 | 45.41 | 28.26 (21-33) | 58.32 (49-65) |
| Inland Scotland and Ireland | 590 | 109 | 44.95 | 0.9195 | 39.05 | 23.50 (17-28) | 46.81 (38-54) |
| Iceland | 181 | 50 | 18.00 | 0.92 | 22.5 | 22.34 (16-27) | 44.26 (38-48) |
| Shetland | 193 | 45 | 15.56 | 0.958 | 18.15 | 24.43 (19-28) | 40.50 (36-43) |
| NW Scottish coast | 103 | 41 | 24.39 | 0.94 | 24.72 | 24.84 (19-29) | |
| Western Isles and Skye | 72 | 31 | 3.23 | 0.929 | 20.11 | 24.2 (19-27) | |
| Orkney | 71 | 33 | 18.18 | 0.957 | 23.37 | 25.97 (21-29) |
N=sample size, k=number of distinct haplotypes.

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