“…To assess the ability of HPA alleles to describe intercontinental genetic divergence, we conducted an amova , which quantifies separation between populations. Towards this end, we divided the assessed populations into two groups: one comprising the populations of Asia and Oceania, as well as native ethnic groups – Toba Amerindians (De La Vega Elena et al ., ), Parakanã Indians (Castro et al ., ), Native Brazilians, Maori people (Edinur et al ., ), Korea (Pavic et al ., ), Malaysia (Tan et al ., ), Indonesia (Asmarinah et al ., ), China (Nie et al ., ) and Polynesia (Edinur et al ., ) – and one comprising the populations of European and African origin: Poland (Drzewek et al ., ), Denmark (Steffensen et al ., ), Italy (EBI, ), Spain (Muniz‐Diaz et al ., ), the United Kingdom (Jones et al ., ), Slovenia (Rozman et al ., ), Argentina (De La Vega Elena et al ., ), the Congo (Halle et al ., ) and Egypt (Salem et al ., ). Argentina was included in this group because the makeup of its population is strongly European.…”