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Higher Levels of Neanderthal Ancestry in East Asians than in Europeans

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Neanderthals were a group of archaic hominins that occupied most of Europe and parts of Western Asia from ∼30,000 to 300,000 years ago (KYA). They coexisted with modern humans during part of this time. Previous genetic analyses that compared a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome with genomes of several modern humans concluded that Neanderthals made a small (1–4%) contribution to the gene pools of all non-African populations. This observation was consistent with a single episode of admixture from Neanderthals into the ancestors of all non-Africans when the two groups coexisted in the Middle East 50–80 KYA. We examined the relationship between Neanderthals and modern humans in greater detail by applying two complementary methods to the published draft Neanderthal genome and an expanded set of high-coverage modern human genome sequences. We find that, consistent with the recent finding of Meyer et al. (2012), Neanderthals contributed more DNA to modern East Asians than to modern Europeans. Furthermore we find that the Maasai of East Africa have a small but significant fraction of Neanderthal DNA. Because our analysis is of several genomic samples from each modern human population considered, we are able to document the extent of variation in Neanderthal ancestry within and among populations. Our results combined with those previously published show that a more complex model of admixture between Neanderthals and modern humans is necessary to account for the different levels of Neanderthal ancestry among human populations. In particular, at least some Neanderthal–modern human admixture must postdate the separation of the ancestors of modern European and modern East Asian populations.

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Authors
Wall, J. D., Yang, M. A., Jay, F., Kim, S. K., Durand, E. Y., Stevison, L. S., Gignoux, C., Woerner, A., Hammer, M. F., & Slatkin, M.
Affiliations
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • University of Arizona (US)
Corresponding author
Wall, Jeffrey D
Venue
Genetics
Published
2013-05-01
Volume
194
Issue
1
Pages
199-209
ISSN
  • 0016-6731 (ISSN-L)
  • 1943-2631
OpenAlex
W2127362327
Cited by
249
References
41
Citations by year
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FWCI
149.48
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Genetics (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (R01HG005226, T32HG00047, T32HG000047)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM040282, R01‑GM40282)
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
Neanderthal admixture, Neanderthal ancestry, East Asian populations, European populations, Maasai, Neanderthal genome, population divergence
MeSH terms
Animals, Asia, Eastern, Gene Pool, Genetics, Population, Haplotypes, Humans, Models, Genetic, Phylogeny, Genome, Human, White People, Asian People, Neanderthals

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