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Testing an alternative explanation for relatively greater base-sharing between Neanderthals and non-African humans

2017-05-03

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Most accept that non-African humans share ∼2% of their genome with Neanderthals (1) and that inter-breeding occurred between several archaic lineages (2-4). However, most evidence assumes that mutation rate is constant. It has been suggested that heterozygosity is mutagenic (5-8). If so, an alternative explanation of the data becomes possible. Instead of non-Africans sharing relatively more bases with Neanderthals...

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Literature Corpus work: 7e8b9a8d-4ec5-515d-a450-52a86c15de5a
DOI: 10.1101/133306

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