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Table 3 Average frequency of minor alleles.

From: Mitochondrial pathogenic mutations are population-specific

SNP Category

African (401 genomes)

Non-African (4057genomes)

Non-African (Monte-Carlo sampling of 401 genomes)

U-test p-value

Synonymous

0.027 ± 0.003

0.0040 ± 0.0004

0.011 ± 4 × 10-6

7.9 × 10-6

- Four fold

0.029 ± 0.004

0.0039 ± 0.0005

0.011 ± 4 × 10-6

2.4 × 10-6

Nonsynonymous

0.023 ± 0.005

0.0033 ± 0.0006

0.011 ± 4 × 10-6

1.5 × 10-6

- Benign

0.026 ± 0.006

0.0042 ± 0.0008

0.012 ± 5 × 10-6

1.0 × 10-6

- Damaging

0.0089 ± 0.009

0.00082 ± 9 × 10-5

0.0038 ± 3 × 10-6

1.7 × 10-3

Pathogenic total

0.0077 ± 0.003

0.0037 ± 0.001

0.0084 ± 8 × 10-6

1.0 × 10-6

- Coding regions

0.0074 ± 0.003

0.0044 ± 0.001

0.0095 ± 1 × 10-5

1.0 × 10-6