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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5938
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-7-17
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Analysis of Neandertal DNA holds great potential for investigating the population history of this group of hominins, but progress has been limited due to the rarity of samples and damaged state of the DNA. We present a method of targeted ancient DNA sequence retrieval that greatly reduces sample destruction and sequencing demands and use this method to reconstruct the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genomes of five Neandertals from across their geographic range. We find that mtDNA genetic diversity in Neandertals that lived 38,000 to 70,000 years ago was approximately one-third of that in contemporary modern humans. Together with analyses of mtDNA protein evolution, these data suggest that the long-term effective population size of Neandertals was smaller than that of modern humans and extant great apes.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1095-9203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
17
pubmed:volume
325
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
318-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Bayes Theorem, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-DNA, Mitochondrial, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Evolution, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Fossils, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Gene Library, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Genetic Variation, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Genome, Human, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Genome, Mitochondrial, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Geography, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Hominidae, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Population Density, pubmed-meshheading:19608918-Sequence Analysis, DNA
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Targeted retrieval and analysis of five Neandertal mtDNA genomes.
pubmed:affiliation
Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. briggs@eva.mpg.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't