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Archaic Hominin Admixture Facilitated Adaptation to Out-of-Africa Environments.
Current biology : CB - 19 Dec 2016
Gittelman Rachel M, Schraiber Joshua G, Vernot Benjamin, Mikacenic Carmen, Wurfel Mark M, Akey Joshua M
Abstract excerpt
As modern humans dispersed from Africa throughout the world, they encountered and interbred with archaic hominins, including Neanderthals and Denisovans [1, 2]. Although genome-scale maps of introgressed sequences have been constructed [3-6], considerable gaps in knowledge remain about the functional, phenotypic, and evolutionary significance of archaic hominin DNA that persists in present-day individuals. Here,...
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