Article
Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia.
Nature - 23 Oct 2014
Fu Qiaomei, Li Heng, Moorjani Priya, Jay Flora, Slepchenko Sergey M, Bondarev Aleksei A, Johnson Philip L F, Aximu-Petri Ayinuer, Prüfer Kay, de Filippo Cesare, Meyer Matthias, Zwyns Nicolas, Salazar-García Domingo C, Kuzmin Yaroslav V, Keates Susan G, Kosintsev Pavel A, Razhev Dmitry I, Richards Michael P, Peristov Nikolai V, Lachmann Michael, Douka Katerina, Higham Thomas F G, Slatkin Montgomery, Hublin Jean-Jacques, Reich David, Kelso Janet, Viola T Bence, Pääbo Svante
Abstract excerpt
We present the high-quality genome sequence of a ∼45,000-year-old modern human male from Siberia. This individual derives from a population that lived before-or simultaneously with-the separation of the populations in western and eastern Eurasia and carries a similar amount of Neanderthal ancestry as present-day Eurasians. However, the genomic segments of Neanderthal ancestry are substantially longer than those...
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