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Excavating Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the genomes of Melanesian individuals.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 8 Apr 2016
Vernot Benjamin, Tucci Serena, Kelso Janet, Schraiber Joshua G, Wolf Aaron B, Gittelman Rachel M, Dannemann Michael, Grote Steffi, McCoy Rajiv C, Norton Heather, Scheinfeldt Laura B, Merriwether David A, Koki George, Friedlaender Jonathan S, Wakefield Jon, Pääbo Svante, Akey Joshua M
Abstract excerpt
Although Neandertal sequences that persist in the genomes of modern humans have been identified in Eurasians, comparable studies in people whose ancestors hybridized with both Neandertals and Denisovans are lacking. We developed an approach to identify DNA inherited from multiple archaic hominin ancestors and applied it to whole-genome sequences from 1523 geographically diverse individuals, including 35...
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