highly significantP < 0.0001
Full details of the terms are given in Additional file 4 : Tables S3-S8. As a confirmation of the validity of the RNA-seq transcript abundance estimates, a highly significant positive correlation (r = 0.9119, P < 0.0001) was found between the RNAseq and qRT-PCR datasets derived from the abundance of six transcripts in three population samples, Trento, Athens and Ban Rai (Additional file 5 : Figure S2, Additional file 6 : Table S9).