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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Massilani, Diyendo
• Skov, Laurits
• Hajdinjak, Mateja
• Gunchinsuren, Byambaa
• Tseveendorj, Damdinsuren
• Yi, Seonbok
• Lee, Jungeun
• Nagel, Sarah
• Nickel, Birgit
• Devièse, Thibaut
• Higham, Tom
• Meyer, Matthias
• Kelso, Janet
• Peter, Benjamin M
• Pääbo, Svante

Titel

Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2020-10, Vol.370 (6516), p.579-583

Ort / Verlag

United States: The American Association for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We present analyses of the genome of a ~34,000-year-old hominin skull cap discovered in the Salkhit Valley in northeastern Mongolia. We show that this individual was a female member of a modern human population that, following the split between East and West Eurasians, experienced substantial gene flow from West Eurasians. Both she and a 40,000-year-old individual from Tianyuan outside Beijing carried genomic segments of Denisovan ancestry. These segments derive from the same Denisovan admixture event(s) that contributed to present-day mainland Asians but are distinct from the Denisovan DNA segments in present-day Papuans and Aboriginal Australians.