Table 3 Fixation indices (FST, FSC, and FCT) generated by hierarchical AMOVA for MAPT haplotypes among South Asian, Middle Eastern and European populations

From: Tau haplotypes support the Asian ancestry of the Roma population settled in the Basque Country

Groups

Fixation indices

 

FCT

FSC

FST

Asia vs. Europe (with Roma)a

0.1055*

0.0219*

0.1251*

Asia (with Roma) vs. Europeb

0.1133*

0.0135*

0.1253*

South Asia, Middle East and Europe (with Roma)a

0.0861*

0.0199*

0.1044*

South Asia (with Roma), Middle East and Europeb

0.0942*

0.0125*

0.1055*

  1. F CT , genetic variation among groups; F SC , genetic variation among populations within groups; F ST , genetic variation among individuals within populations
  2. * statistical significance at P < 0.0001
  3. Europe includes: BC general population (present study), Iberian Basques, French Basques, Ireland, Catalonia, Denmark, Greece (Donnelly et al. 2010), Iceland (Stefansson et al. 2005), Germany, Serbia (Winkler et al. 2007), UK (Fung et al. 2005), France (Evans et al. 2004), Italian collections from Sardinia, Tuscany (Donnelly et al. 2010), Brescia (Ghidoni et al. 2006) and Bergamo (Evans et al. 2004), Norway (Skipper et al. 2004), Hungary (Almos et al. 2008), and Hungary Roma (Almos et al. 2008) and BC Roma (present study) in casea; Middle E a st includes: Druze, Samaritans (Donnelly et al. 2010), Palestina, and Bedouin (Evans et al. 2004); South Asia includes: Hazara (Evans et al. 2004), Brahui, Pathan, Balochi, Mohanna, Sindhi, Burusho, Makrani, Thoti, Keralite, Kachari (Donnelly et al. 2010), and Hungarian Roma and BC Roma in caseb