Title:
Modern Africans and Europeans may have more Neanderthal ancestry than previously thought
Author:
Cell Press
Published:
Phys.org, 30 January 2020
From the article:
"Neanderthal DNA sequences may be more common in modern Africans than previously thought, and different non-African populations have levels of Neanderthal ancestry surprisingly similar to each other, finds a study publishing January 30 in the journal Cell. Researchers arrived at these findings by developing a new statistical method, called IBDmix, to identify Neanderthal sequences in the genomes of modern humans. The results also suggest that African genomes contain Neanderthal sequences in part due to back-migration of ancestors of present-day Europeans."
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https://phys.org/news/2020-01-modern-africans-europeans-neanderthal-ancestry.html