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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 25.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2013 Jul 3;499(7459):471–475. doi: 10.1038/nature12228

Table 1. Genetic variation summary by species and subspecies.

Summary statistics for each species and subspecies.

Genus Scientific name Species/subspecies Common name N Mean Coverage Fixed Sites to Human reference No. of SNVsa Mean SNVs per Individuala No. of Singletonsb Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs)c Ne (10-3)d
Homo Non-African 6 18.3 386,974 5,887,443 2,639,546 1,379,448 12,316 9.7 – 19.5
African 3 20.9 632,253 6,309,453 3,203,178 2,448,454 12,316 13.9 – 27.9
Homo sapiens Humans 9 19.2 224,660 9,172,573 3,061,604 3,827,902 - 13.1 – 16.2

Pan Pan troglodytes ellioti Nigerian-Cameroon 10 16.7 25,017,403 12,605,585 4,816,435 2,695,109 2,213 18.5 – 37.0
Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii Eastern 6 28.7 25,126,506 11,264,879 4,843,530 2,228,396 1,265 19.7 – 39.5
Pan troglodytes troglodytes Central 4 23.8 25,080,750 11,820,858 4,983,933 3,948,347 619 24.4 – 48.7
Pan troglodytes verus Western* 4 27.3 26,832,247 4,729,933 2,411,501 1,481,079 145,548 9.8 – 19.5
Pan troglodytes Common Chimpanzees 24 22.5 24,087,088 27,153,659 5,693,903 10,352,931 149,645 30.9 – 61.8

Pan Pan paniscus Bonobos 13 27.5 27,068,299 8,950,002 2,738,755 3,159,889 - 11.9 – 23.8

Gorilla Gorilla beringei graueri Eastern lowland 3 22.8 34,537,496 3,866,117 2,578,328 484,482 317,028 12.2 – 24.3
Gorilla gorilla diehli Cross river 1 17.6 35,553,861 2,585,360 2,585,360 165,482 35,693 14.9 – 29.8
Gorilla gorilla gorilla Western lowland 23 17.8 31,602,620 17,314,403 6,410,662 2,797,388 19,902 26.8 – 53.5
Gorillas 27 18.3 31,376,203 19,177,989 6,492,831 3,447,352 372,623 28.4 – 56.9

Pongo Pongo abellii Sumatran 5 28.7 62,880,923 14,543,573 7,263,256 5,681,303 1,132,808 27.5 – 55.0
Pongo pygmaeus Bornean 5 25.8 64,249,235 10,321,213 5,763,354 3,555,596 1,132,808 19.5 – 39.0
Orangutans 10 27.3 60,661,869 24,309,920 9,338,148 6,409,648 - 42.3 – 84.6

All 83 23.0 83,954,672 83,580,213 - - - -
a

Polymorphic variants found in each species/subspecies after substracting fixed sites.

b

Singletons and doubletons calculated combining all the samples within the species.

c

Variants only found in a single group within each species.

d

Calculated from Θw. μ = 1e-9 - 0.5e-9 mut·bp-1·yr-1 and g = 25 for Homo and Pan, 19 for Gorilla and 26 for Pongo.

*

Hybrid sample Donald and 4 related gorillas were excluded.