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The recently published Altai fossil sequence from Denisova Cave was purported to be so different from anatomically modern humans, yet have the physiological landmarks of that species designation. When the published sequence was examined it was found that segments in the mtDNA hypervariable regions could be found to align with that of anatomically modern humans if one introduced an insertion at a position found in Neanderthals. Some other points of interest arise from a reconsideration of the sequences for other published samples and Neanderthals from the same perspective.
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Caldararo, N., Guthrie, M. A Note On The Denisova Cave mtDNA Sequence. Nat Prec (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2012.5360.4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2012.5360.4
Keywords
- Denisova Cave Hominid
- aDNA sequence
- early modern DNA
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