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A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 30 Jun 2020
Mafessoni Fabrizio, Grote Steffi, de Filippo Cesare, Slon Viviane, Kolobova Kseniya A, Viola Bence, Markin Sergey V, Chintalapati Manjusha, Peyrégne Stephane, Skov Laurits, Skoglund Pontus, Krivoshapkin Andrey I, Derevianko Anatoly P, Meyer Matthias, Kelso Janet, Peter Benjamin, Prüfer Kay, Pääbo Svante
Abstract excerpt
We sequenced the genome of a Neandertal from Chagyrskaya Cave in the Altai Mountains, Russia, to 27-fold genomic coverage. We show that this Neandertal was a female and that she was more related to Neandertals in western Eurasia [Prüfer et al., Science 358, 655-658 (2017); Hajdinjak et al., Nature 555, 652-656 (2018)] than to Neandertals who lived earlier in Denisova Cave [Prüfer et al., Nature 505, 43-49...
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