Figure 1.
Geographic distribution of mtDNA haplogroups.
Frequencies distribution from the current study and from the published data [30], [31], [35]–[48] as reported in Table 1.
Table 1.
mtDNA Haplogroup frequencies of 1509 newly sequenced Levantine samples and 3665 samples collected from the literature.
Figure 2.
Populations comparison based on mtDNA haplogroups.
a) Principal Component Analysis of relative frequencies of haplogroups within populations, b) with mean-linkage (UPGMA) dendrogram determined from Euclidean distances.
Figure 3.
Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling.
a) mtDNA FST and b) Y-STR RST distances with c) mtDNA FST and d) Y-STR RST mean-linkage dendrogram.
Figure 4.
Heatmap of the Y(Y+mtDNA) distances.
The heatmap shows the normalized ratio of the Y FST distance with respect to the total distance (Y RST+mtDNA FST distances). The dendrograms are obtained using complete linkage hierarchical clustering with the Euclidean distance measure.
Table 2.
mtDNA vs. Y-chromosome AMOVA results contrasting mtDNA and Y dendrogram-based classifications.