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Table 3 DDR PVs identified in ancient humans. Summary

From: Pathogenic variants in human DNA damage repair genes mostly arose in recent human history

DDR pathways

DDR genes

Ancient humans

Modern humansb

Gene with PVs (%)

No. PVs

Genes with PVs (%)

No. PVs

Fanconi anemia (FA)

49

27 (55)

615

30 (61)

926

Homologous Recombination (HR)

37

21 (57)

636

21 (57)

916

Mismatch Repair (MMR)

22

8 (36)

225

8 (36)

188

Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER)

42

13 (31)

95

13 (31)

163

Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ)

13

6 (46)

64

7 (54)

129

DNA damage response (DDR)

15

3 (20)

82

5 (33)

86

Base Excision Repair (BER)

32

7 (22)

46

7 (22)

72

DNA replication (DR)

34

12 (35)

36

11 (32)

36

Totala

169

73 (43)

1266

81 (48)

1781

  1. a Nonredundant numbers
  2. b Referred from Qin et al., 2022 [39]