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Evidence for recent, population-specific evolution of the human mutation rate
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Significance: Most, but not all, human genetic variation is shared between populations, and whole-genome sequencing is now making it possible to catalogue population-private mutations that occur in only one ethnic group and are especially informative about recent human history. By contrasting frequencies of mutations private to Europe, Asia, and Africa, I have revealed a previously undetected difference between Europeans and other ethnic groups: Europeans experience higher rates of a specific mutation type that has known associations with UV light exposure. Although it is not clear whether the excess mutations are harmful or directly related to the UV sensitivity of light skin, this result demonstrates that the human mutation rate has evolved on a much faster timescale than previously believed.
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The paper reports that private European SNPs in the 1000 Genomes data are enriched for the C→T transition 5′-TCC-3′→5′-TTC-3′, suggesting a recent population-specific increase in this mutation type after Europeans diverged from Asians. The author argues this implies the human mutation rate has not remained stable over the last tens of thousands of years, though the mechanism and causality remain unresolved.
Key findings
- In the 1000 Genomes phase I data, private European SNPs (462,876) had a higher percentage of C→T transitions (41.01%) than private Asian SNPs (38.99%) and private African SNPs (38.29%).
- The transition 5′-TCC-3′→5′-TTC-3′ plus its reverse-strand complement had frequency 3.32% in private European SNPs, compared with 1.98% in private African SNPs and 2.04% in private Asian SNPs; the abstract reports a 50% frequency increase during the 40,000–80,000 y since Europeans began diverging from Asians, while ARGweaver-based estimates place acceleration between 25,000 and 60,000 y ago.
- TCC→T was the only mutation type with a significant strand-bias difference between populations at P < 0.01: private European TCC→T SNPs showed no discernible strand bias, whereas private Asian and African TCC→T SNPs showed the typical A/C→G/T strand bias.
- European private genic SNPs had higher f(TCC) than intergenic SNPs, while Asian and African private genic sets had lower TCC→T frequencies, suggesting less effective transcription-coupled repair of TCC→T in Europeans; TCC→T is also described as the most common somatic mutation in melanoma and the mutation most frequently induced in vitro by UV.
Methods
- Analyzed 1000 Genomes phase I data from 1,092 human genomes, constructing population-private SNP sets for Europe (PE), Asia (PAs), and Africa (PAf), plus shared European-Asian SNPs (PAsE); singletons and variants with imputation quality RSQ < 0.95 were excluded, and ancestral states were inferred using the UCSC chimp PanTro4 alignment to hg19.
- Used Pearson’s χ² tests to compare mutation-type frequencies between SNP sets, nonparametric bootstrapping in bins of 1,000 consecutive SNPs within chromosomes, and χ² tests for transcription-strand bias using UCSC gene annotations.
- Compared results with Complete Genomics high-coverage genomes and with de novo mutation calls from 82 Icelandic trios.
Limitations
- Stated: The paper says it cannot pinpoint why the TCC→T rate increased and whether UV played a causal role; it cautions that the asymmetry could be confounded by bioinformatic biases, especially because 1000 Genomes phase I is heavily imputed and contains more European than Asian genomes, which could inflate rare European variant ascertainment.
- Stated: The author notes that current data cannot tell whether skin lightening predated TCC→T acceleration, and that the mechanism linking UV to germ-line mutations is unclear.
- Evident from the text: The inference relies on population-private SNPs and ancestral-state calls rather than direct de novo mutation measurement in non-Europeans, and the UV/melanoma connection is correlative rather than causally tested.
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“The TCC → T frequency difference holds genome-wide, evident on every chromosome except for chromosome Y, which has too little population-private variation to yield accurate measurements of context-dependent SNP frequencies (Fig. 1E).”
§ Evidence for recent, population-specific evolution of the human mutation rate > Significance
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“To rule out the possibility that TCC → T excess in Europe is a bioinformatic artifact specific to the 1000 Genomes data, I reproduced Fig. 1 A and B in a set of human genomes sequenced at high coverage using Complete Genomics technology (SI Appendix, section 3) (23).”
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“A comparison of SNPs private to Africa, Asia, and Europe in the 1000 Genomes data reveals that private European variation is enriched for the transition 5′-TCC-3′ → 5′-TTC-3′.”
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“TCC → T and a few other C → T transitions exhibit the clearest evidence of European rate acceleration, but other mutation types might have experienced smaller rate changes within Europeans or other human populations.”
§ Evidence for recent, population-specific evolution of the human mutation rate > Discussion
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“As predicted by this logic, f ðTCCÞ is higher among private genic European SNPs than among private intergenic European SNPs (Fig. 3F).”
§ Evidence for recent, population-specific evolution of the human mutation rate > Antiquity of the European Mutation Rate Change.
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“By contrasting frequencies of mutations private to Europe, Asia, and Africa, I have revealed a previously undetected difference between Europeans and other ethnic groups: Europeans experience higher rates of a specific mutation type that has known associations with UV light exposure.”
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“In contrast, genomic regions that differ in GC content and/or sequencing depth show little consistency as to which mutation types show the most frequency differentiation between Africa and Asia.”
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“In contrast, when PAs and PAf are partitioned into genic and intergenic SNPs, the genic SNP sets have lower TCC → T frequencies, suggesting that TCR of this mutation type is relatively efficient in non-Europeans.”
§ Evidence for recent, population-specific evolution of the human mutation rate > Antiquity of the European Mutation Rate Change.
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“Within Europe, Fig. 2 shows a slight f ðTCCÞ gradient running from north to south; the median f ðTCCÞ is lowest in the Finns and highest in the Spanish and Italians.”
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“Three other C → T transitions (TCT → TTT, ACC → ATC, and CCC → CTC) are also more abundant in Europe than in Africa across a broad range of GC contents and sequencing depths.”
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“Based on these estimates, TCC → T rate acceleration seems to have occurred between 25,000 and 60,000 y ago, not long after Europeans diverged from Asians (SI Appendix, section 4).”
§ Evidence for recent, population-specific evolution of the human mutation rate > Antiquity of the European Mutation Rate Change.
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The Results (Analysis of Real Data; page unavailable) state that ARGweaver produced allele-age estimates from human genomes, supporting the basis named in the claim. Our copy does not report a TCC → T rate acceleration, date it to 25,000–60,000 years ago, or relate it to European–Asian divergence; that appears to be the citing authors’ inference rather than a finding of this source. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“Combined with its reverse strand complement 5′-GGA-3′ → 5′-GAA-3′, TCC → T has frequency 3.32% in PE compared with 1.98% in PAf and 2.04% in PAs.”
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“The results suggest that many mutation types occur at slightly higher rates in Europe compared with Asia, with C → T transitions, particularly TCC → T, showing the strongest signal of rate differentiation.”
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“The African American f ðTCCÞ values are only slightly higher on average than the nonadmixed African values, but a few African American individuals have much higher f ðTCCÞ values in the middle of the admixed American range, presumably because they have more European ancestry than the other African Americans who were sampled.”
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“In PE, TCC → TTC and its complement GGA → GAA are the 16th and 17th most common SNP types, respectively, whereas they are only ranked 27th and 32nd in PAs.”
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“Private Asian and African TCC → T SNPs were found to exhibit the strand bias that is typical of A/C → G/T mutations (28), with the C → T change usually affecting the antisense strand and the G → A change usually affecting the sense strand.”
§ Evidence for recent, population-specific evolution of the human mutation rate > Antiquity of the European Mutation Rate Change.
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“there remain 462,876 private European SNPs (PE) that are variable in Europe but fixed ancestral in all nonadmixed Asian and African populations, as well as 265,988 private Asian SNPs (PAs) that are variable in Asia but fixed ancestral in Africa and Europe.”
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“I compared PE and PAs to the set of 3,357,498 private African SNPs (PAf) that are variable in the Yorubans (YRI) and/or Luhya (LWK) but fixed ancestral in Europe and Asia.”
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“Several CpG transitions including ACG → ATG seem to have higher frequencies in Asia than in Africa, but these differences disappear when the spectrum is folded to, for instance, identify ACG → ATG with the inverse mutation ATG → ACG (SI Appendix, section 5).”
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“At the P = 0:01 significance level (gray dashed line), only TCC → T has a significant strand bias difference between Europe and Africa, whereas no mutation type significantly differs in strand bias between Asia and Africa.”
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“Regardless of its causality, this change indicates that DNA replication fidelity has not remained stable even since the origin of modern humans and might have changed numerous times during our recent evolutionary history.”
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“A 7,000-y-old Early European farmer was found to be homozygous for the skinlightening SLC24A5 allele (25), suggesting that light skin was relatively prevalent by 7,000 y ago and could have originated much earlier.”
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“This could produce a false overall excess of European-derived alleles but seems unlikely to elevate the discovery rate of TCC → T in Europe relative to other mutation types.”
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“Excess C → T transitions are characteristic of several different mutagenic processes including UV damage and cytosine deamination (19).”
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“Melanoma incidence in admixed Hispanics is strongly correlated with European ancestry (33)(34)(35).”
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“Despite the strong evidence that UV causes TCC → T mutations, the question remains how UV could affect germ-line cells that are generally shielded from solar radiation.”
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“Incidentally, melanoma is not only associated with UV light exposure but also with European ancestry, occurring at very low rates in Africans, African Americans, and even light-skinned Asians (32)(33)(34).”
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“Although this conflict might have arisen from a gradual decrease in the rate of germ-line mitoses per year as our ancestors evolved longer generation times (12,13), the results of this paper indicate that another force may have come into play: change in the mutation rate per mitosis.”
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“In the Icelandic trios, TCC → TTC and GGA → GAA are ranked 20th and 18th.”
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“In addition, because the 1000 Genomes phase I dataset is heavily imputed and contains more European genomes than Asian genomes, rare European variants might be ascertained more completely than rare Asian variants.”
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“The association of TCC → T mutations with UV exposure is not well understood, but two factors seem to be in play: (i) the propensity of UV to cross-link the TC into a base dimer lesion and (ii) poorer repair efficacy at TCC than at other motifs where UV lesions can form (36,37).”
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“Most human trios that have been sequenced are European in origin (SI Appendix, section 9), meaning that there exist few measurements of de novo mutation patterns on diverse genetic backgrounds.”
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“Melanoma somatic mutations consist almost entirely of C → T transitions, 28% of which are TCC → T mutations (19,31).”
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“Although it is not clear whether UV played a causal role in changing the European mutational spectrum, 5′-TCC-3′ → 5′-TTC-3′ is known to be the most common somatic mutation present in melanoma skin cancers, as well as the mutation most frequently induced in vitro by UV.”
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“In the mid-1990s, Drobetsky et al. (29) and Marionnet et al. (30) observed that TCC → T dominated the mutational spectra of single genes isolated from UV-irradiated cell cultures.”
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“A study of the California Cancer Registry found that the annual age-adjusted incidence of melanoma cases per 100,000 people was 0.8-0.9 for Asians, 0.7-1.0 for African Americans, and 11.3-17.2for Caucasians (35).”
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“SNPs that affect gene expression in DNA damage response pathways show evidence of recent diversifying selection, exhibiting geographic frequency gradients that seem to be correlated with environmental UV exposure (7).”
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“Drobetsky et al. (29) compared the incidence of UV lesions to the incidence of mutations in irradiated cells and found that TCC motifs were not hotspots for lesion formation but instead were disproportionately likely to have lesions develop into mutations rather than undergoing error-free repair.”
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“These definitions are meant to select for mutations that have been confined to a single continent for most of their history except for possible recent transmission to the Americas.”
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“Singletons are excluded to minimize the impact of possible sequencing error, and variants with imputation quality lower than RSQ = 0:95 are excluded to minimize erroneous designation of shared SNPs as population-private.”
§ Evidence for recent, population-specific evolution of the human mutation rate > Materials and Methods
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“Given such a general challenge to the molecular clock assumption, it may be wise to infer demographic history from mutations such as CpG transitions that accumulate in a more clocklike way than other mutations (8,20).”
§ Evidence for recent, population-specific evolution of the human mutation rate > Discussion
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In the paper
“If the mutagenic spectrum was able to change during the last 60,000 y of human history, it might have changed numerous times during great ape evolution and beforehand.”
§ Evidence for recent, population-specific evolution of the human mutation rate > Discussion
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Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. It may state two separate claims as one.
The authors state this as an assumption.
The TCC to T mutation rate is the same in genic and intergenic regions in Europeans because transcription-coupled repair is ineffective at preventing TCC to T mutations in Europeans.
“If we assume that the TCC → T mutation rate is the same in genic and intergenic regions because TCR is ineffective at preventing TCC → T mutations in Europeans, we should expect the frequency f ðTCCÞ to be slightly higher among private genic SNPs than among private intergenic SNPs.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The observed European excess of TCC to T mutations is not explained by demographic events such as a population bottleneck.
“This asymmetry cannot be explained by a demographic event such as a population bottleneck; however, it should be interpreted with caution because many bioinformatic biases have the potential to confound this test.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Previous studies have presented no evidence of mutation rate evolution on a timescale as recent as the human migration out of Africa.
“To my knowledge, previous studies have presented no evidence of mutation rate evolution on a timescale as recent as the human migration out of Africa.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The private SNPs used in the analysis are enriched for young mutations that arose after humans left Africa and began adapting to temperate latitudes.
“These SNPs should be enriched for young mutations that arose after humans had already left Africa and begun adapting to temperate latitudes.”
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“Evidence indicates that both Denisovan and Neanderthal aSNPs, especially those within protein coding and conserved non-coding elements, are mostly deleterious and negatively selected in modern humans [14, 61].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Harris, K.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Corresponding author
- Harris, Kelley
- ORCID
- Harris, Kelley
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2015-03-02
- Volume
- 112
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 3439-3444
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC4371947
- OpenAlex
- W2115741580
- Semantic Scholar
- 43a60e7b197d8f860145743b4fc95a6b8ec0cbbe
- Cited by
- 165
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 8
- FWCI
- 11.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1000078615)
- HHS | National Institutes of Health (IR01GM109454-01)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Keywords
- mutation spectrum, UV mutagenesis, DNA replication fidelity, local adaptation, European populations, melanoma, DNA damage response, human dispersal out of Africa, 1000 Genomes Project
- MeSH terms
- Europe, Biological Evolution, Genetics, Population, Humans, Mutation, Transcription, Genetic, Genetic Variation, Computational Biology, Mutation Rate
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