Identifying and Interpreting Apparent Neanderthal Ancestry in African Individuals

Lu Chen; Aaron B. Wolf; Wenqing Fu; Liming Li; Joshua M. Akey

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.012

Identifying and Interpreting Apparent Neanderthal Ancestry in African Individuals

Lu Chen, Aaron B. Wolf, Wenqing Fu, Liming Li, Joshua M. Akey

Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

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Abstract

Detecting archaic introgression in modern humans without using an unadmixed reference panel reveals higher Neanderthal ancestry in African individuals than previously seen and suggests that back-to-Africa migrations contributed to this signal.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	677-687.e16
Journal	Cell
Volume	180
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.012
State	Published - Feb 20 2020

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Keywords

Africa
IBD
Neanderthal
archaic admixture
back-migration
evolution
pre-OOA

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