Article
Archaic ancestry inference in imputed ancient human genomes.
Nature communications - 6 Aug 2026
Capodiferro Marco Rosario, Planche Léo, Breslin Emily M, Ongaro Linda, Ávila-Arcos María C, Jay Flora, Cassidy Lara M, Huerta-Sanchez Emilia
Abstract excerpt
When modern humans expanded from Africa into Eurasia, they interbred with archaic hominins such as Neanderthals and Denisovans. This introgression shaped human evolution, yet most insights have been gained from present-day genomes, leaving little known about how archaic variants evolved after interbreeding. Ancient genomes offer a direct view of this process, but low coverage and poor quality have limited their...
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- Humans
- Genome, Human
- Haplotypes
- Animals
- Neanderthals
- Hominidae
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
