Article
Neandertal DNA sequences and the origin of modern humans.
Cell - 11 Jul 1997
Krings M, Stone A, Schmitz R W, Krainitzki H, Stoneking M, Pääbo S
Abstract excerpt
DNA was extracted from the Neandertal-type specimen found in 1856 in western Germany. By sequencing clones from short overlapping PCR products, a hitherto unknown mitochondrial (mt) DNA sequence was determined. Multiple controls indicate that this sequence is endogenous to the fossil. Sequence co...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Bone and Bones
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Evolution, Molecular
- Fossils
- Genetic Variation
- Germany
- Hominidae
- Humans
- Humerus
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Reproducibility of Results
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid