Genetic variation and population structure of Sudanese populations as indicated by 15 Identifiler sequence-tagged repeat (STR) loci

Table 4 Partition of genetic variation between the Sudanese populations (using analysis of molecular variance) based on linguistic or geographic classification.

Grouping criteria (n)	Groups	Variance (%)
		Within populations	Between populations, within groups	Between groups
Linguistic groups,^a (2)	Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan	99.07	0.73	0.21
Geographic groups, (5)	Central, Northern, Eastern, Western and Southern^b	98.99	0.49	0.52

For all F-statistics, p < 0.01
^aSee Figure 1 and Table 1 for the geographic and linguistic classification of populations.
^bThe Nuba population was excluded because the group included individuals speaking different languages belonging to the Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan linguistic families.

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