Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia.

Reich, David; E Green, Richard; Kircher, Martin; Krause, Johannes; Patterson, Nick; Y Durand, Eric; Viola, Bence; W Briggs, Adrian; Stenzel, Udo; L F Johnson, Philip; Maricic, Tomislav; M Good, Jeffrey; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Alkan, Can; Fu, Qiaomei; Mallick, Swapan; Li, Heng; Meyer, Matthias; E Eichler, Evan; Stoneking, Mark; Richards, Michael; Talamo, Sahra; V Shunkov, Michael; P Derevianko, Anatoli; Hublin, Jean-Jacques; Kelso, Janet; Slatkin, Montgomery; Pääbo, Svante

doi:10.1038/nature09710

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Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia.

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David Reich

Richard E Green

Martin Kircher

Abstract

Using DNA extracted from a finger bone found in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia, we have sequenced the genome of an archaic hominin to about 1.9-fold coverage. This individual is from a group that shares a common origin with Neanderthals. This population was not involved in the putative gene flow ...

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