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SUBMITTER: Prufer K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6185897 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20171005 6363
To date, the only Neandertal genome that has been sequenced to high quality is from an individual found in Southern Siberia. We sequenced the genome of a female Neandertal from ~50,000 years ago from Vindija Cave, Croatia, to ~30-fold genomic coverage. She carried 1.6 differences per 10,000 base pairs between the two copies of her genome, fewer than present-day humans, suggesting that Neandertal populations were of small size. Our analyses indicate that she was more closely related to the Neande ...[more]