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      A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

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          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 sequence of the Neandertal genome composed of more than 4 billion nucleotides from three individuals. Comparisons of the Neandertal genome to the genomes of five present-day humans from different parts of the world identify a number of genomic regions that may have been affected by positive selection in ancestral modern humans, including genes involved in metabolism and in cognitive and skeletal development. We show that Neandertals shared more genetic variants with present-day humans in Eurasia than with present-day humans in sub-Saharan Africa, suggesting that gene flow from Neandertals into the ancestors of non-Africans occurred before the divergence of Eurasian groups from each other.

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          Journal
          0404511
          7473
          Science
          Science
          Science (New York, N.Y.)
          0036-8075
          1095-9203
          4 November 2016
          7 May 2010
          08 November 2016
          : 328
          : 5979
          : 710-722
          Affiliations
          [1 ]Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
          [2 ]Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
          [3 ]Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
          [4 ]European Molecular Biology Laboratory–European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SD, UK.
          [5 ]Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
          [6 ]Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA.
          [7 ]Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
          [8 ]Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA.
          [9 ]454 Life Sciences, Branford, CT 06405, USA.
          [10 ]Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zrinski trg 11, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
          [11 ]Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for Quaternary Paleontology and Geology, Ante Kovacica 5, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
          [12 ]ANO Laboratory of Prehistory, St. Petersburg, Russia.
          [13 ]Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
          [14 ]Área de Prehistoria Departamento de Historia Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.
          [15 ]Departamento de Paleobiología, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
          [16 ]Der Landschaftverband Rheinlund–Landesmuseum Bonn, Bachstrasse 5-9, D-53115 Bonn, Germany.
          [17 ]Abteilung für Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie, Universität Bonn, Germany.
          [18 ]Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
          [19 ]Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
          [20 ]Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
          [21 ]Department of Human Evolution, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
          Author notes
          [* ]To whom correspondence should be addressed. green@ 123456eva.mpg.de (R.E.G.); reich@ 123456genetics.med.harvard.edu (D.R.); paabo@ 123456eva.mpg.de (S.P.)
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          Members of the Neandertal Genome Analysis Consortium.

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          Present address: Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.

          [∥]

          Present address: Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100029, P.R. China.

          [¶]

          Deceased.

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          PMC5100745 PMC5100745 5100745 nihpa827403
          10.1126/science.1188021
          5100745
          20448178
          28d26a6b-769f-40e4-88ac-383bd0576205
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