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Table 3 Age estimates and standard deviations (in years) for the Most Recent Common Ancestor for the related lineages in North and sub-Saharan Africa.

From: The trans-Saharan slave trade - clues from interpolation analyses and high-resolution characterization of mitochondrial DNA lineages

Clade

Related lineages

Age ± standard deviation (years)

L3b1b

4-7

9,926 ± 2,555

L3b1a

8-39, 229, 230, 233

13,537 ± 1,058

L3b2

42, 234

13,370 ± 4,205

L3d1c

61, 62

9,246 ± 3,444

L3d1'2'3

76, 231

6,549 ± 2,883

L3e2a

107-115

14,179 ± 2,352

L3e2b

116-129, 235, J77

11,985 ± 1,529

L3e2b2

128, 129

1,287 ± 1,278

L3e5

144-148, 232

11,516 ± 2,264

L3e5

147, 232

10,610 ± 3,704

L3f1a

165, J70

14,766 ± 4,448

L3f1b

167-189, 214, 236, J78, J80

14,710 ± 1,227

L3f1b2

178, 179, 236

4,343 ± 2,388

L3f2b

192, 193

24,809 ± 5,935

L3h1a2

199, 200

26,281 ± 6,139

L3h1b

204-210, J81

36,827 ± 3,772

L3h1b

204, J81

14,766 ± 4,448

L3 × 2

155-159

33,165 ± 4,499

  1. Numbers in the "related lineages" column refer to identification of samples in the tree in Additional File 2.