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Archaic admixture in the human genome.

Jeffrey D Wall1, Michael F Hammer

  • 1Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
|October 10, 2006
PubMed
Summary

Neanderthals may have interbred with modern humans, contributing genes to Europeans. Recent findings suggest archaic African populations also interbred with modern West Africans, impacting gene pools.

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Area of Science:

  • Human Evolution
  • Paleogenetics
  • Population Genetics

Background:

  • The evolutionary history of Homo sapiens involves interactions with archaic human forms.
  • A key question is whether Neanderthals went extinct or interbred with modern humans.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the genetic contribution of Neanderthals and other archaic human populations to modern human gene pools.
  • To determine if Neanderthal DNA is present in modern-day Europeans and if archaic African populations contributed to West African gene pools.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of extensive nuclear DNA sequences from Neanderthals and other archaic humans.
  • Comparative genomic analysis to identify archaic admixture in modern human populations.

Main Results:

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  • Recent studies suggest Neanderthals contributed to the modern European gene pool.
  • Evidence indicates an unidentified archaic African population contributed to the West African gene pool.

Conclusions:

  • Archaic hominins, including Neanderthals and an unidentified African archaic population, have contributed genetically to modern human populations.
  • Further extensive sequencing of archaic human DNA holds the potential to definitively resolve these interbreeding events.