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RNA viruses drove adaptive introgressions between Neanderthals and modern humans

2017-03-24

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Neanderthals and modern humans came in contact with each other and interbred at least twice in the past 100,000 years. Such contact and interbreeding likely led both to the transmission of viruses novel to either species and to the exchange of adaptive alleles that provided resistance against the same viruses. Here, we show that viruses were responsible for dozens of adaptive introgressions between Neanderthals an...

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Literature Corpus work: 825f5760-bc8a-505b-813d-b7c22815fa46
DOI: 10.1101/120477

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