Table 4

FST values inferred from the 41 samples of the worldwide genotyping survey for each of the seven common SNPs of the NAT2 gene.


G191A
C282T
T341C
C481T
G590A
A803G
G857A
Average FST over all loci

World subdivided into








     Five geographic groups (41 populations)a
0.104
0.004c
0.257
0.231
0.022
0.241
0.061
0.152
     Three geographic groups (35 populations)b
0.122
-0.001c
0.308
0.280
0.011
0.291
0.074
0.189

a Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe/North Africa, Central/South Asia, East Asia, Central America [see Additional file 1 for the population composition of each geographic area]

b Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe/North Africa, East Asia

c Not significantly different from 0 at the 5% level

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