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The lingering effects of Neanderthal introgression on human complex traits
2022-06-08
Abstract excerpt
The mutations introduced into the ancestors of modern humans from interbreeding with Neanderthals have been suggested to contribute an unexpected extent to complex human traits. However, testing this hypothesis has been challenging due to the idiosyncratic population genetic properties of introgressed mutations. We developed rigorous methods to assess the contribution of introgressed Neanderthal mutations to herit...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2a11a9df-db80-52b7-8691-84808cf891e3
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.06.07.495223