Old SNVs Have Been Reported in Other Publications

Figure 37: Left (click image to enlarge): Average age of all SNVs, ``Shared'' SNVs found both in European Americans (red) and in African Americans (blue), and SNVs found in only one population (``Specific''). Right (click image to enlarge): Average age for different functional types of variants. Both plots are taken from Fu et al. (20).

In a recent publication (20), it was found that

``The average age across all SNVs was 34,200 $\pm$ 900 years ($\pm$ s.d.) in European Americans and 47,600 $\pm$ 1,500 years in African Americans, and these estimates were robust to sequencing errors [...]''.

The authors further write

``SNVs shared between European Americans and African Americans were significantly older (104,400 years and 115,800 years for European Americans and African Americans, respectively)''.

These figures are visualized as bar plots in Fig. 37.