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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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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)
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
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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