For RM Y-STRs, no haplotype sharing was observed between different populations sampled from the same countries, such as the five Indian, two Japanese, three Korean, three Austrian, two Belgian, three German, two Italian, two Polish, three US American, and two Hungarian populations, except for the two Czech populations.
Falchi et al. (10) report significant and reproducible associations between their measurements and BMI in different population samples, and even miscalibrated measurements could be sufficient to detect such an association, as long as the measurements are correlated with the true copy numbers.
The table from 2000 uses a different population sample and projects death rates out to age 120.
Once again the differences observed between Nigeria and Malawi may reflect the different populations sampled.
As a matter of fact, the knowledge of genetic distances between different populations is helpful in defining which biobanks could sensibly contribute samples and data to GWAS.
Negative results could be attributed to the lack of power given by a relatively small sample size, as well as phenotypic heterogeneity between different populations [ 59].
By the end of last year, with an ever-growing sample of Neanderthal genomes, geneticists had identified three to five instances of gene flow between different populations: between Neanderthals and modern humans, Denisovans and modern humans, and between Neanderthals and Denisovans.
