Nucleic acid here: That number, if taken from a real scientific article, isn't about the whole genome, but most likely about alleles present in both populations.
That said, I'm 100% sure this person isn't a noob philogeography/population-genetics enthusiast but rather the average kind of person eager to ignorantly talk about human phenotypes in reddit
EDIT: Holy shit the r*dditor is citing textually from the Nature news article; I understand science divulgation has to "simplify" things, but this is astonishingly stupid way of trying to explain a real scientific article, I can't believe this comes from Nature
Nucleic acid here: That number, if taken from a real scientific article, isn't about the whole genome, but most likely about alleles present in both populations.
That said, I'm 100% sure this person isn't a noob philogeography/population-genetics enthusiast but rather the average kind of person eager to ignorantly talk about human phenotypes in reddit
EDIT: Holy shit the r*dditor is citing textually from the Nature news article; I understand science divulgation has to "simplify" things, but this is astonishingly stupid way of trying to explain a real scientific article, I can't believe this comes from Nature
EDIT 2:
This is 2013, fuck off with those numbers