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A bit more information on the Ust-Ishim find:
https://mcidublin.conference-servic...tract.xsl&conferenceID=3958&abstractID=811773
Coming from abstracts from a conference that both Davidski and Dienekes link to:
http://eurogenes.blogspot.nl/2014/06/coming-soon-genome-wide-data-from-more.html
https://mcidublin.conference-servic...tract.xsl&conferenceID=3958&abstractID=811773
We have sequenced to high coverage the genome of a femur recently discovered near Ust-Ishim in Siberia. The bone was directly carbon-dated to 45,000 years before present. Analyses of the relationship of the Ust-Ishim individual to present-day humans show that he is closely related to the ancestral population shared between present-day Europeans and present-day Asians. The over-all amount of genomic admixture from Neandertals is similar to that in present-day non-Africans and there is no evidence for admixture from Denisovans. However, the size of the genomic segments of Neandertal ancestry in the Ust-Ishim individual is substantially larger than in present-day individuals. From the size distribution of these segments we estimated that this individual lived about 200-400 generations after the admixture with Neandertals occurred. The age of this genome allows us to directly assess the mutation rate in the different compartments of the human genome. These results will be presented and discussed.
Coming from abstracts from a conference that both Davidski and Dienekes link to:
http://eurogenes.blogspot.nl/2014/06/coming-soon-genome-wide-data-from-more.html
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