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SUBMITTER: Browning SR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5866234 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Browning Sharon R SR Browning Brian L BL Zhou Ying Y Tucci Serena S Akey Joshua M JM
Cell 20180315 1
Anatomically modern humans interbred with Neanderthals and with a related archaic population known as Denisovans. Genomes of several Neanderthals and one Denisovan have been sequenced, and these reference genomes have been used to detect introgressed genetic material in present-day human genomes. Segments of introgression also can be detected without use of reference genomes, and doing so can be advantageous for finding introgressed segments that are less closely related to the sequenced archaic ...[more]