Publication Date:
2015-06-23
Description:
Neanderthals are thought to have disappeared in Europe approximately 39,000-41,000 years ago but they have contributed 1-3% of the DNA of present-day people in Eurasia. Here we analyse DNA from a 37,000-42,000-year-old modern human from Pestera cu Oase, Romania. Although the specimen contains small amounts of human DNA, we use an enrichment strategy to isolate sites that are informative about its relationship to Neanderthals and present-day humans. We find that on the order of 6-9% of the genome of the Oase individual is derived from Neanderthals, more than any other modern human sequenced to date. Three chromosomal segments of Neanderthal ancestry are over 50 centimorgans in size, indicating that this individual had a Neanderthal ancestor as recently as four to six generations back. However, the Oase individual does not share more alleles with later Europeans than with East Asians, suggesting that the Oase population did not contribute substantially to later humans in Europe.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4537386/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4537386/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Fu, Qiaomei -- Hajdinjak, Mateja -- Moldovan, Oana Teodora -- Constantin, Silviu -- Mallick, Swapan -- Skoglund, Pontus -- Patterson, Nick -- Rohland, Nadin -- Lazaridis, Iosif -- Nickel, Birgit -- Viola, Bence -- Prufer, Kay -- Meyer, Matthias -- Kelso, Janet -- Reich, David -- Paabo, Svante -- GM100233/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM100233/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 Aug 13;524(7564):216-9. doi: 10.1038/nature14558. Epub 2015 Jun 22.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, IVPP, CAS, Beijing 100044, China [2] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [3] Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany. ; Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany. ; Emil Racovita" Institute of Speleology, Cluj Branch, 400006 Cluj, Romania. ; Emil Racovita" Institute of Speleology, Department of Geospeleology and Paleontology, 010986 Bucharest 12, Romania. ; 1] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA [3] Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany. ; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. ; 1] Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany [2] Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany [3] Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S2, Canada. ; 1] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA [3] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26098372" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alleles
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Animals
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Asian Continental Ancestry Group/genetics
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European Continental Ancestry Group/genetics
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Far East
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*Fossils
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Genome, Human/genetics
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Humans
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Hybridization, Genetic/*genetics
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Indians, North American/genetics
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Male
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Neanderthals/*genetics
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*Phylogeny
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Romania
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Time Factors
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
