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Table 2 Neutrality-test statistics of each gene in each population.a

From: Contrasting signals of positive selection in genes involved in human skin-color variation from tests based on SNP scans and resequencing

Gene

Population

Tajima's D

Fu and Li's

Fay and Wu's H

Fu's Fs

EWHTb

GMc

CMd

EDe

   

D*

F*

D

F

      

OCA2

African (YRI)

0.368

0.67

0.67

0.71

0.71

3.16

1.73

0.18

0.08

0.01

0.95

 

European (CEU)

1.36

0.75

1.14

0.79

1.21

-1.94

9.23

0.30

0.16

0.05

0.86

 

East Asian (CHB)

0.46

0.70

0.73

0.74

0.77

-5.74

6.78

0.47

0.29

0.38

0.48

TYRP1

African (YRI)

-0.99

0.02

-0.39

-0.02

-0.45

-7.76

-3.4

0.10

0.66

0.65

0.08

 

European (CEU)

0.45

-0.70

-0.37

0.19

0.34

-5.24

1.30

0.31

0.96

0.89

0.49

 

East Asian (CHB)

-1.41

-0.74

-1.15

-0.85

-1.26

-4.91

-5.20

0.23

0.33

0.19

<0.00005

DCT

African (YRI)

-0.83

1.18

0.57

1.28

0.60

-3.54

-0.14

0.18

0.15

<0.005

0.84

 

European (CEU)

-0.20

1.16

0.83

1.23

0.87

-3.89

2.30

0.24

0.39

0.16

0.78

 

East Asian (CHB)

0.95

1.12

1.25

1.18

1.32

-4.61

3.72

0.54

0.24

0.44

0.74

KITLG

African (YRI)

0.14

0.35

0.33

0.35

0.33

-4.35

-0.28

0.11

0.13

0.17

0.79

 

European (CEU)

0.97

1.25

1.36

1.33

1.44

-4.39

6.24

0.39

4.17E-05

<0.01

0.95

 

East Asian (CHB)

1.10

0.29

0.68

0.28

0.70

-2.81

5.01

0.32

0.38

0.69

0.69

  1. aNeutrality-test statistics and combined P values for each population and gene for which a neutrality test distribution could be computed. Combined P values using the approach proposed by [64] were computed using three different neutrality distributions.
  2. bEwens-Watterson homozygosity test
  3. cMaximum likelihood model of Gutenkunst et al [44],
  4. dCosi best fit to the best-fit parameters of Schaffner et al. [45].
  5. eEncyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) data from resampled sequences from three different ENCODE regions.