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Statistics used to infer inter-breeding between humans and Neanderthals are strongly predicted by flanking sequence heterozygosity

2020-10-11

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A large and rapidly expanding literature has grown out of the observation that humans carry a genetic legacy reflecting ancient inter-breeding with archaic hominins such as Neanderthals and Denisovans. However, a recent study suggests that a commonly used statistic used to assess legacy size, D, is driven mainly by heterozygous sites in Africa acting to increase divergence from our common ancestor rather than intr...

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Literature Corpus work: 7f932348-f29f-5c7b-80ab-a57d69e4c153
DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.11.334862

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