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Table 1 Properties of genomic islands.

From: Evolutionary forces shaping genomic islands of population differentiation in humans

 

High-differentiation islands (HDIs)

Low-differentiation islands

(LDIs)

 

Mean

Min-max

Mean

Min-max

No. of islands

625

 

197

 

Length (bp)

465,756

11,037 - 15,210,531

368,902

25,709 - 2,021,127

No. of SNPs

73.61

4 - 322

90.76

10 - 430

No. of genes

5.35

0 - 92

3.45

0 - 37

Mean Recombination rate

1.04

0.00 - 6.31

1.31

0.04 - 7.48

Mean FST

0.23

0.17 - 0.43

0.09

0.06 - 0.14

Mean heterozygosity

0.23

0.09 - 0.33

0.31

0.18 - 0.42

Mean z-value

0.88

0.32 - 2.63

-0.77

-1.41 - -0.32

  1. Properties of islands with significant levels of population differentiation as detected by the HMM approach