North African populations carry the signature of admixture with Neandertals.

One of the main findings derived from the analysis of the Neandertal genome was the evidence for admixture between Neandertals and non-African modern humans. An alternative scenario is that the ancestral population of non-Africans was closer to Neandertals than to Africans because of ancient populat...

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Main Authors: Federico Sánchez-Quinto, Laura R Botigué, Sergi Civit, Conxita Arenas, María C Avila-Arcos, Carlos D Bustamante, David Comas, Carles Lalueza-Fox
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23082212/?tool=EBI