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Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2016 Sep 21;538(7624):201–206. doi: 10.1038/nature18964

Extended Data Table 1.

Fewer accumulated mutations in Africans than in non-Africans.

All
autosomes
All X
chromosome
Lowest B
quintile
Highest B
quintile
Population A Population B D×100 Z D×100 Z D×100 Z D×100 Z
Khoesan Oceania −0.35 −8.2 −0.70 −2.7 −0.68 −6.4 −0.14 −1.7
Africa America −0.33 −9.4 −0.73 −2.8 −0.65 −7.3 −0.18 −2.6
Khoesan WestEurasia −0.30 −7.5 −0.68 −3.1 −0.63 −6.3 −0.17 −2.1
Africa Oceania −0.29 −8.5 −0.66 −3.2 −0.55 −6.6 −0.07 −1.0
Africa WestEurasia −0.25 −8.5 −0.66 −3.1 −0.49 −6.4 −0.11 −1.8
Khoesan SouthAsia −0.24 −6.0 −0.56 −2.7 −0.61 −6.3 −0.11 −1.4
Africa EastAsia −0.20 −6.6 −0.65 −2.5 −0.42 −5.2 −0.10 −1.5
Africa CentralAsiaSiberia −0.20 −6.2 −0.55 −2.2 −0.48 −6.3 −0.05 −0.7
Pygmy WestEurasia −0.19 −4.8 −0.46 −1.4 −0.43 −4.6 −0.04 −0.5
Africa SouthAsia −0.18 −6.4 −0.50 −2.0 −0.46 −6.3 −0.03 −0.5
CentralAsiaSiberia Oceania −0.13 −3.9 −0.15 −0.6 −0.09 −1.1 −0.03 −0.4
Pygmy SouthAsia −0.13 −3.3 −0.38 −1.1 −0.38 −4.2 0.02 0.2
EastAsia Oceania −0.13 −4.1 0.00 0.0 −0.17 −2.1 0.04 0.6
Khoesan Pygmy −0.10 −2.6 −0.14 −0.4 −0.16 −1.6 −0.12 −1.5
SouthAsia WestEurasia −0.08 −4.3 −0.20 −1.2 −0.05 −1.0 −0.10 −2.7
CentralAsiaSiberia WestEurasia −0.06 −2.2 −0.16 −0.8 −0.01 −0.2 −0.09 −1.6
EastAsia WestEurasia −0.06 −2.1 −0.00 −0.0 −0.08 −1.0 −0.02 −0.3
CentralAsiaSiberia EastAsia −0.00 −0.2 −0.18 −1.1 0.07 1.2 −0.08 −1.8
Africa Pygmy −0.00 −0.1 −0.06 −0.2 0.03 0.4 −0.06 −0.8
EastAsia SouthAsia 0.02 0.7 0.22 1.7 −0.04 −0.7 0.08 1.7
CentralAsiaSiberia SouthAsia 0.02 0.7 0.05 0.3 0.02 0.4 −0.00 −0.0
America Oceania 0.03 0.9 0.11 0.4 0.10 1.1 0.13 1.7
Oceania WestEurasia 0.08 2.3 −0.03 −0.1 0.10 1.1 −0.04 −0.6
Africa Khoesan 0.10 2.9 0.17 0.7 0.23 2.6 0.07 1.0
America WestEurasia 0.11 3.6 0.11 0.4 0.19 2.2 0.08 1.3
CentralAsiaSiberia Pygmy 0.14 3.4 0.32 0.9 0.43 4.5 −0.04 −0.4
Oceania SouthAsia 0.14 4.8 0.22 0.9 0.13 1.7 0.04 0.7
EastAsia Pygmy 0.15 3.6 0.49 1.4 0.37 3.9 0.04 0.5
America EastAsia 0.18 5.9 0.09 0.3 0.28 3.6 0.11 1.8
America CentralAsiaSiberia 0.18 6.2 0.34 1.7 0.23 2.9 0.18 3.1
America SouthAsia 0.18 6.4 0.34 1.5 0.22 3.0 0.18 3.1
Oceania Pygmy 0.24 5.4 0.46 1.3 0.45 4.6 0.02 0.2
CentralAsiaSiberia Khoesan 0.25 6.0 0.57 2.9 0.64 6.3 0.09 1.1
EastAsia Khoesan 0.25 6.2 0.68 3.2 0.59 5.9 0.14 1.7
America Pygmy 0.26 5.9 0.58 1.6 0.58 5.7 0.09 1.0
America Khoesan 0.37 8.7 0.76 3.3 0.77 7.3 0.22 2.5

We compute a statistic D(Population A, Population B, Chimp), measuring the difference in the rate of matching to chimpanzee in Population A compared to Population B. For all the autosomes, we observe highly significant signals (3.3<|Z|<9.4) of excess mismatching to chimpanzee in non-Africans compared to Africans, using a standard error from a Block Jackknife. We highlight |D|>0.002 in blue, and |Z|>3 in yellow. The deviations from zero are greatest in subsets of the genome where the time since two populations split comprises a relatively larger fraction of the total genetic divergence time between the populations; this is the direction expected from a mutation accumulation change since divergence. Compared to all the autosomes as a baseline, a least squares fit indicate that the deviations are 2.2-times higher on chromosome X, 2.0 times higher in the quintile of lowest B-statistic (closest to functionally important regions), and 0.43 times as high in the quintile of lowest B-statistic (furthest from functional regions).