Figure 4From: Southeast Asian diversity: first insights into the complex mtDNA structure of LaosMultidimensional scaling analysis of genetic distances between 17 population samples from East Asia. Computed from F ST indices based on nps 16024-16383 (see Additional file 8). Stress value: 0.085. Abbreviations: AA - Austro-Asiatic, ISEA - Island Southeast Asians, SIM - Southern Indigenous Minorities, STB - Southern Tibeto-Burmans. References: [3–7, 12, 17, 23–26].Back to article page