Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians.
Science
; 370(6516): 579-583, 2020 10 30.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33122380
ABSTRACT
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.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Hominidae
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Evolution, Molecular
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Asian People
Limits:
Animals
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Female
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
Science
Year:
2020
Document type:
Article