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Table 1 All polymorphism data from African and non-African populations.

From: Mitochondrial pathogenic mutations are population-specific

 

Number of variable sites

Number of minor alleles

SNP Category

Total

African

Non-African

African

Non-African

Synonymous

2574 (67.1%)

792 (71.0%)

2422 (67.3%)

8614

39183

- Four fold

1177 (45.7%)

419 (53.0%)

1274 (52.6%)

4877

20284

Nonsynonymous

1263 (32.9%)

323 (29.0%)

1178 (32.7%)

2942

15688

- Unknown

4 (0.3%)

1 (0.3%)

4 (0.3%)

5

51

- Benign

922 (73.0%)

263 (81.4%)

865 (73.4%)

2727

14611

- Damaging

338 (26.7%)

59 (18.3%)

309 (26.3%)

210

1025

Pathogenic total

87

27

85

83

1259

- Coding regions

55

19

53

56

956

- tRNAs

25

7

25

26

177

- rRNAs

7

1

7

1

126

  1. Some polymorphic sites were shared between the two populations, leading to fewer polymorphic sites in the total category than just the sum of polymorphic sites from each population.