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Nuclear DNA from two early Neandertals reveals 80,000 years of genetic continuity in Europe

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Peyrégne, Stéphane, Slon, Viviane, Mafessoni, Fabrizio, de Filippo, Cesare, Hajdinjak, Mateja, Nagel, Sarah, Nickel, Birgit, Essel, Elena +14 more·2019·Science Advances

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Sequences from two ~120,000-year-old individuals reveal the deep population history of European Neandertals.

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  • Despite its superior sensitivity, the Peyrégne et al. strategy comes at a cost of reduced accuracy in the mapping of reads containing the reference allele.

    “However, despite its superior sensitivity, the Peyrégne et al. strategy comes at a cost of reduced accuracy in the mapping of reads containing the reference allele, as we demonstrate below.”

    From Removing reference bias and improving indel calling in ancient DNA data analysis by mapping to a sequence variation graph (2020) · cites this paper as [15]

    The Results (page unavailable) say that aligning to an alternative Neandertal reference recovered additional sequences, supporting the strategy’s increased sensitivity. The Methods (page unavailable) describe excluding reads that aligned to different positions in the two references, but neither passage reports reduced mapping accuracy for reads carrying the reference allele. The citing sentence says that its authors demonstrate that cost below. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • Recently proposed approaches modify the reference genome and/or the aDNA sequencing reads to account for alternate alleles at polymorphic sites, and reference bias can be substantially reduced by taking into account non-reference variation in the alignment process.

    “Recently proposed approaches modify the reference genome [10, 15] and/or the aDNA sequencing reads [10] in order to account for alternate alleles at polymorphic sites. The authors show that by taking into account non-reference variation in the alignment process, reference bias can be substantially reduced.”

    From Removing reference bias and improving indel calling in ancient DNA data analysis by mapping to a sequence variation graph (2020) · cites this paper as [15]

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  • The Peyrégne et al. workflow was the most sensitive, mapping 99.90% (bwa aln -n0.01 -o2; mapQ ≥ 25; alternate allele fraction = 0.50011 95% CI [0.50011, 0.50011]) and 99.77% (at mapQ ≥ 30; alternate allele fraction = 0.50009 95% CI [0.50009, 0.50009]) of all alternate allele reads vs. 99.69% (at q ≥ 30) and 99.15% (at mapQ ≥ 50) with vg graph.

    “This workflow was the most sensitive, mapping 99.90% (bwa aln -n0.01 -o2; mapQ ≥ 25; alternate allele fraction = 0.50011 95% CI [0.50011, 0.50011]) and 99.77% (at mapQ ≥ 30; alternate allele fraction = 0.50009 95% CI [0.50009, 0.50009]) of all alternate allele reads vs. 99.69% (at q ≥ 30) and 99.15% (at mapQ ≥ 50) with vg graph”

    From Removing reference bias and improving indel calling in ancient DNA data analysis by mapping to a sequence variation graph (2020) · cites this paper as [15]

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Peyrégne, S., Slon, V., Mafessoni, F., de Filippo, C., Hajdinjak, M., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Essel, E., Le Cabec, A., Wehrberger, K., Conard, N. J., Kind, C. J., Posth, C., Krause, J., Abrams, G., Bonjean, D., Di Modica, K., Toussaint, M., Kelso, J., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., & Prüfer, K.
Affiliations
  • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
  • Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig04103, Germany.
  • Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig04103, Germany.
  • Museum Ulm, Marktplatz 9, Ulm89073, Germany.
  • University of Tübingen (DE)
  • State Office for Cultural Heritage Baden-Württemberg Berliner Strasse 12, Esslingen 73728 Germany.
  • Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (DE)
  • Scladina (BE)
  • Scladina Cave Archaeological Center, Sclayn, Belgium.
  • Ouffet, Belgium.
Corresponding author
  • Peyrégne, Stéphane
  • Prüfer, Kay
Venue
Science Advances
Published
2019-06
Volume
5
Issue
6
Pages
eaaw5873-eaaw5873
ISSN
2375-2548 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2955983787
Cited by
82
References
110
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1
FWCI
47.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc
Locations
  • Science Advances (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
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  • Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (publishedVersion)
  • Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • ArTS Archivio della ricerca di Trieste (University of Trieste https://www.units.it/) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • European Research Council (694707)
  • 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 › Genetics › Genetic diversity and population structure
Keywords
Neanderthals, nuclear DNA, genetic continuity
MeSH terms
Animals, Cell Nucleus, DNA, Europe, Fossils, Germany, Mitochondria, Genome, Cell Lineage, Evolution, Molecular, Neanderthals

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