TABLE 6.
Estimates of the time to the most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) of putative novel (postsweep and postbottleneck) mutations scaled in coalescent units
| Fragments | No. of simulations |
θafr | Mean TMRCA |
SD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV | 10,000,000 | 0.0142 | 2.1363 | 1.1040 |
| LV | 10,000,000 | 0.0142 | 2.1148 | 1.1175 |
| LV | 10,000,000 | 0.0142 | 2.1460 | 1.1992 |
| NV | 10,000,000 | 0.0191 | 1.7576 | 1.0908 |
| NV | 10,000,000 | 0.0191 | 2.7724 | 0.9590 |
| NV | 10,000,000 | 0.0191 | 3.1506 | 1.3901 |
Simulations were conditioned on the mean θ-estimates of the African sample for the two classes of fragments (LV, NV), respectively. Three replicates were performed assuming a constant population size.