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Impacts of Neanderthal-Introgressed Sequences on the Landscape of Human Gene Expression
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Regulatory variation influencing gene expression is a key contributor to phenotypic diversity, both within and between species. Unfortunately, RNA degrades too rapidly to be recovered from fossil remains, limiting functional genomic insights about our extinct hominin relatives. Many Neanderthal sequences survive in modern humans due to ancient hybridization, providing an opportunity to assess their contributions to transcriptional variation and to test hypotheses about regulatory evolution. We developed a flexible Bayesian statistical approach to quantify allele-specific expression (ASE) in complex RNA-seq datasets. We identified widespread expression differences between Neanderthal and modern human alleles, indicating pervasive cis-regulatory impacts of introgression. Brain regions and testes exhibited significant downregulation of Neanderthal alleles relative to other tissues, consistent with natural selection influencing the tissue-specific regulatory landscape. Our study demonstrates that Neanderthal-inherited sequences are not silent remnants of ancient interbreeding but have measurable impacts on gene expression that contribute to variation in modern human phenotypes.
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“Second, Neanderthal ancestry is depleted in regions of the genome with annotated molecular functions (e.g., genes and gene regulatory elements), and this depletion is strongest in annotated brain and testis regulatory regions27–29.”
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“The depletion in cognitive traits suggests that the previously observed strong depletion for Neanderthal alleles in regulatory regions active in the brain may be due to effects on brain-related complex traits5,28,29.”
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“Indeed, studies conducted primarily on Neanderthal introgressed DNA have suggested a non-negligible contribution to gene expression variation in modern humans [10, 11, 22], with repeated examples of Neanderthal archaic variants falling within regulatory elements or the seed region of mature micro-RNAs predicted to affect transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory processes [11, 62].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- McCoy, R. C., Wakefield, J., & Akey, J. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Akey, Joshua M.
- Venue
- Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-02
- Volume
- 168
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 916-927.e12
- ISSN
- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6219754
- OpenAlex
- W2594204182
- Cited by
- 200
- References
- 92
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 7
- FWCI
- 94.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Cell (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- NIH/NHGRI (5T32HG000035-22)
- NIH (R01GM110068)
- Common Fund of the Office of the Director of the NIH
- NCI
- NHGRI
- NHLBI
- NIDA
- NIMH
- NINDS
- NCI\SAIC-Frederick
- Disease Research Interchange (10XS170)
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute (10XS171)
- Science Care (X10S172, HHSN268201000029C)
- The Broad Institute
- Van Andel Institute (10ST1035)
- SAIC-F (HHSN261200800001E)
- University of Miami (DA006227, DA033684, N01MH000028, MH090941, MH101814, MH090951, MH090937, MH101820, MH101825, MH090936, MH101819, MH090948, MH101782, MH101810, MH101822)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Keywords
- Neanderthal introgression, allele-specific expression, cis-regulatory variation, human gene expression, ancient hybridization, regulatory evolution, natural selection
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain, Gene Expression Regulation, Humans, Male, Organ Specificity, Testis, Gene Expression, Evolution, Molecular, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Neanderthals
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