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SUBMITTER: Gregory MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5524936 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gregory Michael D MD Kippenhan J Shane JS Eisenberg Daniel P DP Kohn Philip D PD Dickinson Dwight D Mattay Venkata S VS Chen Qiang Q Weinberger Daniel R DR Saad Ziad S ZS Berman Karen F KF
Scientific reports 20170724 1
Before their disappearance from the fossil record approximately 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, the ancient hominin lineage most closely related to modern humans, interbred with ancestors of present-day humans. The legacy of this gene flow persists through Neanderthal-derived variants that survive in modern human DNA; however, the neural implications of this inheritance are uncertain. Here, using MRI in a large cohort of healthy individuals of European-descent, we show that the amount of Neander ...[more]