Neanderthals still control our genes

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3115, 2017, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Evidence that Neanderthal control of human genes endures comes from an in-depth analysis of DNA from 214 people of European descent in the US. By comparing their DNA with that from Neanderthals--whose genome was sequenced in 2008--a team led by Joshua Akey at the University of Washington in Seattle identified which Neanderthal gene fragments had survived and were still active in 52 different types of human tissue. The team found that some people had one human and one Neanderthal copy of the same gene