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A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual
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Ancient Genomics: The Denisovans were archaic humans closely related to Neandertals, whose populations overlapped with the ancestors of modern-day humans. Using a single-stranded library preparation method, Meyer et al. (p. 222 , published online 30 August) provide a detailed analysis of a high-quality Denisovan genome. The genomic sequence provides evidence for very low rates of heterozygosity in the Denisova, probably not because of recent inbreeding, but instead because of a small population size. The genome sequence also illuminates the relationships between humans and archaics, including Neandertals, and establishes a catalog of genetic changes within the human lineage.
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“However, recent discoveries of relatively intact macromolecular organic material in fossils and sub-fossils challenge this view.”
From Cretaceous dinosaur bone contains recent organic material and provides an environment conducive to microbial communities (2019) · cites this paper as Meyer et al., 2012
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“Moreover, the introgressing Neanderthals were probably from populations that were separated both in time and space from the three archaic individuals who have so far been sequenced to high coverage-hereafter referred to as DAV (Denisovan, Altai Neanderthal and Vindija Neanderthal) 1,17,18 .”
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“Introgression from extinct Neanderthal and Denisovan human species has been shown to contribute to the genetic pool of modern human populations and their phenotypic spectrum.”
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“While NE ancestry is relatively uniform among modern Eurasian populations (1, 2), it is approximately 8 to 24% higher in East Asia than in Europe (5, 10, 12, 13).”
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“This second range expansion is essential for explaining the pattern currently observed of lower NE ancestry in western Europe than in East Asia (5, 10, 12, 13).”
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“In particular, non-African populations show 1% to 2% of Neanderthal ancestry in their genomes (Green et al. 2010; Prüfer et al. 2014) and Melanesians and East Asians display 3% and 0.2%, respectively, from Denisovans ancestry (Green et al. 2010; Meyer et al. 2012; Prüfer et al. 2014).”
From The Human Accelerated Region HAR202 Controls NPAS3 Expression in the Developing Forebrain Displaying Differential Enhancer Activity Between Modern and Archaic Human Sequences (2024) · cites this paper as Meyer et al. 2012
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“These archaic hominins diverged from AMHs around 700 ka (Meyer et al. 2012; Prüfer et al. 2014, 2017; Nielsen et al. 2017; Gómez-Robles 2019; Mafessoni et al. 2020)”
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“West Eurasians harbour significantly less Neanderthal ancestry than East Asians19-21, which could be explained if West Eurasians (but not East Asians) have partial ancestry from a source diluting their Neanderthal inheritance22.”
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“The mapping approaches employed in this study are consistent with those used in previous research [2, 6].”
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“These findings corroborated the theory that the Denisovans (and presumably also the Neandertals) had shared the fused HSA2 with modern humans.”
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“After modern humans left Africa more than 60,000 years ago, genetic evidence suggests multiple admixture events ~55,000 years [9] between modern humans and now extinct archaic humans including Neandertals [10–12] and Denisovans [13, 14].”
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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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“Perhaps surprisingly, Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern humans share an identical FOXP2 protein (Meyer et al., 2012; Noonan et al., 2006).”
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“For the Neanderthal sequence, we removed all sites with genotype quality < 40, and mapping quality < 30, as done previously 67 .”
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- Authors
- Meyer, M., Kircher, M., Gansauge, M.-T., Li, H., Racimo, F., Mallick, S., Schraiber, J. G., Jay, F., Prüfer, K., de Filippo, C., Sudmant, P. H., Alkan, C., Fu, Q., Do, R., Rohland, N., Tandon, A., Siebauer, M., Green, R. E., Bryc, K., Briggs, A. W., Stenzel, U., Dabney, J., Shendure, J., Kitzman, J., Hammer, M. F., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Patterson, N., Andrés, A. M., Eichler, E. E., Slatkin, M., Reich, D., Kelso, J., & Pääbo, S.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
- Max Planck Society (DE)
- Broad Institute (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
- University of Washington (US)
- Bilkent University (TR)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)
- Palaeolithic Department, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Meyer, Matthias
- Kircher, Martin
- Reich, David
- Pääbo, Svante
- ORCID
- Meyer, Matthias
- Kircher, Martin
- Gansauge, Marie-Theres
- Li, Heng
- Racimo, Fernando
- Mallick, Swapan
- Schraiber, Joshua G.
- Jay, Flora
- Prüfer, Kay
- Sudmant, Peter H.
- Alkan, Can
- Fu, Qiaomei
- Do, Ron
- Rohland, Nadin
- Green, Richard E.
- Bryc, Katarzyna
- Briggs, Adrian W.
- Dabney, Jesse
- Shendure, Jay
- Kitzman, Jacob
- Hammer, Michael F.
- Shunkov, Michael V.
- Patterson, Nick
- Andrés, Aida M.
- Eichler, Evan E.
- Slatkin, Montgomery
- Reich, David
- Kelso, Janet
- Pääbo, Svante
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2012-10-12
- Volume
- 338
- Issue
- 6104
- Pages
- 222-226
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC3617501
- OpenAlex
- W2038686775
- Semantic Scholar
- 914243876fdc3842f1f9e33432ada3dcf130ad10
- Cited by
- 1,967
- References
- 200
- Citations by year
- 2026: 97 · 2025: 104 · 2024: 113 · 2023: 138 · 2022: 115 · 2021: 179 · 2020: 161 · 2019: 146 · 2018: 158 · 2017: 146 · 2016: 166 · 2015: 145 · 2014: 164 · 2013: 118 · 2012: 14
- FWCI
- 658.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Bilkent University Institutional Repository (Bilkent University) (submittedVersion)
- Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM040282, GM100233, R01GM100233)
- 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, archaic humans, DNA library preparation, heterozygosity, genetic diversity, Denisovan admixture, modern human populations, positive selection, human evolution
- MeSH terms
- Alleles, Animals, Base Sequence, Fossils, Heterozygote, Humans, Molecular Sequence Data, Genetic Variation, Gene Library, Genome, Human, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Gene Flow, Neanderthals
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