'Viking disease' hand disorder may come from Neanderthal genes

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A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution shows that a condition known as Dupuytren's disease is partly of Neanderthal origin. Researchers have long known that the disease was much more common in Northern Europeans than in those of African ancestry............
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-viking-disease-disorder-neanderthal-genes.html