This major milestone comes four decades after initial efforts by Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo to recover ancient Egyptian DNA ...

Ancient DNA analyses also indicate genetic admixture within Europe. Despite this evidence, European ancestry populations are mostly regarded as stratified and not as admixed at the subcontinental ...

Researchers of the HSE International Laboratory of Statistical and Computational Genomics together with their international colleagues have proposed a new statistical method for analysing ...

Recent genetic admixture marked the DNA of the Brazilian population The team identified potentially pathogenic genetic variants in 450 genes linked to heart diseases and obesity in the Brazilian ...

Notably, such admixture is not present in modern Africans, indicating there was no significant “back migration” from Eurasia. Modern humans of European or Asian descent retain 1 to 4 percent ...

Remnants of Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes have long prompted questions about interspecies mating. Two studies shed light on when that occurred — and when ancient humans left Africa.

Two pulses of genetic admixture indicate more than one migration event of modern humans out of Africa, and lower Neanderthal population sizes could indicate that their decreasing population was ...

The Neanderthal DNA that many people carry today, the researchers argue, is a legacy from just 100 or 200 Neanderthals. “The effective population size of modern humans outside Africa was about ...