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Neandertal DNA sequences and the origin of modern humans
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Neandertal DNA sequences and the origin of modern humans
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DNA was extracted from the Neandertal-type specimen found in 1856 in western Germany. By sequencing clones from short overlapping PCR products, a hitherto unknown mitochondrial (mt) DNA sequence was determined. Multiple controls indicate that this sequence is endogenous to the fossil. Sequence comparisons with human mtDNA sequences, as well as phylogenetic analyses, show that the Neandertal sequence falls outside the variation of modern humans. Furthermore, the age of the common ancestor of the Neandertal and modern human mtDNAs is estimated to be four times greater than that of the common ancestor of human mtDNAs. This suggests that Neandertals went extinct without contributing mtDNA to modern humans.
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Facts and artifacts of ancient DNA.Cell. 1997 Jul 11;90(1):1-3. doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80306-2. Cell. 1997. PMID: 9230295 Review. No abstract available.
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