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Patterns of coding variation in the complete exomes of three Neandertals

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Castellano, Sergi, Parra, Genís, Sánchez-Quinto, Federico A., Racimo, Fernando, Kuhlwilm, Martin, Kircher, Martin, Sawyer, Susanna, Fu, Qiaomei +22 more·2014·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Significance: We use a hybridization approach to enrich the DNA from the protein-coding fraction of the genomes of two Neandertal individuals from Spain and Croatia. By analyzing these two exomes together with the genome sequence of a Neandertal from Siberia we show that the genetic diversity of Neandertals was lower than that of present-day humans and that the pattern of coding variation suggests that Neandertal populations were small and isolated from one another. We also show that genes involved in skeletal morphology have changed more than expected on the Neandertal evolutionary lineage whereas genes involved in pigmentation and behavior have changed more on the modern human lineage.

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  • Limited genetic data suggest the opposite, i.e. the Neanderthal lineage might be the more derived.

    “However, limited genetic data seem to suggest the opposite, i.e. the Neanderthal lineage might be the more derived [23].”

    From The origin and evolution of <i>Homo sapiens</i> (2016) · cites this paper as [23]

    The paper’s Significance section reports a larger fraction of derived amino acid-changing alleles in the three Neandertals studied than in the present-day humans studied. Its conclusion says that morphology-related genes may have changed more on the Neandertal and Denisovan lineages, but behavior-related genes may have changed more on the modern human lineage. These findings do not establish that the Neandertal lineage was more derived overall. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  • Castellano et al. highlight genes involved in skeletal development and associated with aggressive phenotypes in their comparison of archaic Homo and AMH.

    “It is striking that Castellano et al. [115] highlight genes involved in skeletal development and associated with aggressive phenotypes in their comparison of archaic Homo and AMH.”
  • No genes in S1 Table display reported archaic-derived alleles.

    “We examined the genes associated with archaic-derived alleles [115] and found that no genes in S1 Table display reported archaic-derived alleles.”
  • ADSL has been pointed out before as under positive selection.

    “which has been pointed out before as under positive selection31,33,34,122.”

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Castellano, S., Parra, G., Sánchez-Quinto, F. A., Racimo, F., Kuhlwilm, M., Kircher, M., Sawyer, S., Fu, Q., Heinze, A., Nickel, B., Dabney, J., Siebauer, M., White, L., Burbano, H. A., Renaud, G., Stenzel, U., Lalueza-Fox, C., de la Rasilla, M., Rosas, A., Rudan, P., Brajković, D., Kucan, Ž., Gušic, I., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Viola, B., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Andrés, A. M., & Pääbo, S.
Affiliations
  • Max Planck Society (DE)
  • Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany;
  • Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08003 Barcelona, Spain;
  • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
  • Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (DE)
  • Área de Prehistoria, Departamento de Historia, Universidad de Oviedo, 33011 Oviedo, Spain;
  • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
  • Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HR)
  • Anthropology Center of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia;
  • Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)
  • Paleolithic Department, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; and
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2014-04-21
Volume
111
Issue
18
Pages
6666-6671
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W2131870855
Cited by
247
References
82
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 27 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 33 · 2015: 26 · 2014: 9
FWCI
153.35
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Consultation of the Doctoral Thesis Database (TESEO) (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) (submittedVersion)
  • Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
  • Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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
Neanderthals, non-synonymous mutations, protein-coding genes, genetic diversity, effective population size, amino acid substitutions, skeletal morphology, pigmentation genes
MeSH terms
Animals, DNA, Gene Frequency, Humans, Paleontology, Phylogeny, Siberia, Spain, Genetic Variation, Croatia, Amino Acid Substitution, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Neanderthals, Exome

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