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Published online 20 July 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060717-13

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Geneticists shoot for Neanderthal genome in two years

Plans to sequence our cousins are unveiled at anniversary meeting.

We have the modern human genome. Now researchers are set to sequence the DNA of our extinct cousins: Neanderthal man.

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