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Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia
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Using DNA extracted from a finger bone found in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia, we have sequenced the genome of an archaic hominin to about 1.9-fold coverage. This individual is from a group that shares a common origin with Neanderthals. This population was not involved in the putative gene flow from Neanderthals into Eurasians; however, the data suggest that it contributed 4–6% of its genetic material to the genomes of present-day Melanesians. We designate this hominin population ‘Denisovans’ and suggest that it may have been widespread in Asia during the Late Pleistocene epoch. A tooth found in Denisova Cave carries a mitochondrial genome highly similar to that of the finger bone. This tooth shares no derived morphological features with Neanderthals or modern humans, further indicating that Denisovans have an evolutionary history distinct from Neanderthals and modern humans. Anatomically modern humans were in Africa from some point after 200,000 years ago and reached Eurasia rather later. Meanwhile, archaic hominins — including the Neanderthals — had been in Eurasia from at least 230,000 years ago and disappear from the fossil record only about 30,000 years ago. The genome of a female archaic hominin from Denisova Cave in southern Siberia has now been sequenced from DNA extracted from a finger bone. The group to which this 'Denisovan' individual belonged shares a common origin with Neanderthals and, although it was not involved in the putative gene flow from Neanderthals into Eurasians, it contributed 4–6% of the genomes of present-day Melanesians. In addition, the morphology of a tooth with a mitochondrial genome very similar to that of the finger bone suggests that these hominins are evolutionarily distinct from both Neanderthals and modern humans. Using DNA from a finger bone, the genome of an archaic hominin from southern Siberia has been sequenced to about 1.9-fold coverage. The group to which this individual belonged shares a common origin with Neanderthals, and although it was not involved in the putative gene flow from Neanderthals into Eurasians, it contributed 4–6% of its genetic material to the genomes of present-day Melanesians. A tooth whose mitochondrial genome is very similar to that of the finger bone further suggests that these hominins are evolutionarily distinct from Neanderthals and modern humans.
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“There is evidence for superarchaic gene flow into Denisovans 13,21,22 , into Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors 27 , and into Africans 4 .”
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“EAS populations also show evidence of introgression from Denisovans [18, 19, 31].”
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“These results solve a puzzle: under model αβγδ 27 (Fig. 1), successive methodological improvements led to less and less plausible estimates of the separation time, T XY , between modern west Africans and Europeans.”
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“Methods for quality control, calling ancestral alleles, and calibrating the molecular clock are as described by Rogers et al. 27 .”
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“nearly all Eurasians have ~2% Neanderthal ancestry resulting from interbreeding events that occurred shortly after their ancestors left Africa1,2.”
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“In some cases, these past introgression events likely resulted in adaptive introgression (Bustamante and Henn 2010; Green et al. 2010; Reich et al. 2010)—selection favoring archaic variants to facilitate adaptation to novel environments in modern humans (Racimo et al. 2015).”
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“For example, we now have evidence that archaic and modern humans interbred, and that numerous population replacement and admixture events occurred across Eurasia in the past, resulting in the transmission of genes between previously geographically separated populations (Bustamante and Henn 2010; Green et al. 2010; Reich et al. 2010).”
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“It has been shown that Papuans and Indigenous Australians carry the largest amount of Denisovan introgression (∼1% to 5%), followed by East and South Asians (∼0.06% to 0.5%), and Indigenous Americans (∼0.05% to 0.4%) (Reich et al. 2010; Racimo et al. 2015; Mallick et al. 2016; Sankararaman et al. 2016; Browning et al. 2018).”
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“Sequencing of Neanderthal genomes has revealed that ~2% of the DNA of modern humans (MHs) outside of Africa is more similar to DNA from Neanderthals (NEs) than it is to DNA from sub-Saharan African populations (1, 2).”
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“Model-averaged parameter estimates (Fig. 4) are in general agreement with previous work 27 , but there are a few exceptions.”
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“Many modern humans also show evidence of introgression, or the incorporation of alleles from archaic humans like Neanderthals and Denisovans (Green et al. 2010; Reich et al. 2010).”
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“Admixture with extinct hominins (Neanderthals and Denisovans) resulted in the introgression of archaic alleles into the human gene pool51–53.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Reich, D., Green, R. E., Kircher, M., Krause, J., Patterson, N., Durand, E. Y., Viola, B., Briggs, A. W., Stenzel, U., Johnson, P. L. F., Maricic, T., Good, J. M., Marques-Bonet, T., Alkan, C., Fu, Q., Mallick, S., Li, H., Meyer, M., Eichler, E. E., Stoneking, M., Richards, M., Talamo, S., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Hublin, J.-J., Kelso, J., Slatkin, M., & Pääbo, S.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Max Planck Society (DE)
- Broad Institute (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Emory University (US)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)
- Corresponding author
- Reich, David
- Viola, Bence
- Pääbo, Svante
- ORCID
- Reich, David
- Green, Richard E.
- Kircher, Martin
- Krause, Johannes
- Patterson, Nick
- Viola, Bence
- Briggs, Adrian W.
- Good, Jeffrey M.
- Alkan, Can
- Fu, Qiaomei
- Mallick, Swapan
- Li, Heng
- Meyer, Matthias
- Eichler, Evan E.
- Stoneking, Mark
- Richards, Michael
- Talamo, Sahra
- Shunkov, Michael V.
- Hublin, Jean-Jacques
- Kelso, Janet
- Slatkin, Montgomery
- Pääbo, Svante
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2010-12
- Volume
- 468
- Issue
- 7327
- Pages
- 1053-1060
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC4306417
- OpenAlex
- W1994263888
- Cited by
- 1,991
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 72 · 2025: 126 · 2024: 119 · 2023: 132 · 2022: 134 · 2021: 148 · 2020: 89 · 2019: 115 · 2018: 123 · 2017: 129 · 2016: 127 · 2015: 126 · 2014: 161 · 2013: 153 · 2012: 134
- FWCI
- 530.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion)
- DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Repositori digital de la UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0754461, 1032255)
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM040282)
- Office of International Science and Engineering
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Keywords
- Denisovans, Denisova Cave, archaic humans, Neanderthals, mitochondrial genome, human evolution, Neanderthal introgression, hominin phylogeny
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Asia, DNA, Mitochondrial, Europe, Fossils, Humans, Melanesia, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Siberia, Tooth, Hominidae, Genome, Finger Phalanges, Gene Flow
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