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SUBMITTER: Durvasula A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7015685 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Durvasula Arun A Sankararaman Sriram S
Science advances 20200212 7
While introgression from Neanderthals and Denisovans has been documented in modern humans outside Africa, the contribution of archaic hominins to the genetic variation of present-day Africans remains poorly understood. We provide complementary lines of evidence for archaic introgression into four West African populations. Our analyses of site frequency spectra indicate that these populations derive 2 to 19% of their genetic ancestry from an archaic population that diverged before the split of Ne ...[more]