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Nature 449, 7 (6 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449007a; Published online 5 September 2007
DNA probe finds hints of human
Rex Dalton
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Abstract
Contamination of ancient samples may have led to claims that humans and Neanderthals interbred.
A groundbreaking analysis of Neanderthal DNA that suggested they interbred with humans was based on samples contaminated with human DNA, a new study suggests.The study1, published on 28 August in PLoS Genetics, reanalysed about one million base pairs of fossilized Neanderthal DNA that had been analysed in a paper published last November in Nature2.
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