… , which is eliminated when the template DNA is treated with … sets of sequences is observed
(58), a third amplification is in … variants is reproducible, provided that what is studied are …

… The reason is that human DNA is particularly prevalent in the environment of laboratories
and museums, and cannot easily be distinguished from the DNA endogenous to ancient …

Fossils and molecular data are two independent sources of information that should in principle
provide consistent inferences of when evolutionary lineages diverged. Here we use an …

… When applied to mtDNA, the restriction method is reliable only among closely related taxa.
Restriction analysis is limited to the small proportion of species inthe biosphere that are big …

Neandertals, the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans, lived in large parts of
Europe and western Asia before disappearing 30,000 years ago. We present a draft …

We present a high-quality genome sequence of a Neanderthal woman from Siberia. We
show that her parents were related at the level of half-siblings and that mating among close …

… of variability recovered at FOXP2, it is noteworthy that the next gene is located 286 kilobases
(kb) away from the sequenced segment. A selective sweep is not expected to lead to an …

… A fundamental question is whether the Denisova individual is an outgroup to Neanderthals
and modern humans, as the mtDNA suggests 19 , whether it is a sister group to Neanderthals …

… Note that the D-statistic is not the same as the mixture proportion, as it is also affected, for
example, by the amount of genetic drift that is shared between the samples. (B) Sharing of …

… , it is established that methylation of CpG-rich promoters is … Equally uncertain is the contribution
of promoter DNA methylation to … This inconclusive picture is a consequence of the limited …