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Denisovan introgression has shaped the immune system of present-day Papuans
2020-07-09
Abstract excerpt
Modern humans have substantially admixed with multiple archaic hominins. Papuans, in particular, owe up to 5% of their genome to Denisovans, a sister group to Neanderthals, whose remains have only been identified in Siberia and Tibet. Unfortunately, the biological and evolutionary significance of these introgression events remain poorly understood. Here we investigate the function of archaic alleles of both Deniso...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1ea692ad-8ee9-59b4-ba2c-c94d9a359fc9
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.07.09.196444