“Our main finding is that Neanderthal DNA does influence clinical traits in modern humans: We discovered associations between Neanderthal DNA and a wide range of traits, including immunological, dermatological, neurological, psychiatric, and reproductive diseases,” explained senior study author John Capra...
Others, however, have countered that the innovations seen in the Châtelperronian occurred before modern humans had arrived, demonstrating that Neanderthals had the ability to make the sophisticated material culture of the Upper Paleolithic (d'Errico 2003, Zilhao 2006). Recently, however, the ...
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In the first tab of the excel spreadsheet the Neanderthal genetic score for 271 phenotypes (145 quantitative traits and 132 case control phenotypes). The number of samples for each phenotype (or case and controls) are provided for each phenotype along with effect size and and p-value. The eff...
The irony - past artists would routinely portray Neanderthals as hulking, shuffling apelike types, yet it turns out that Neanderthals stood straighter than humans and could walk far further. Realistically, Neanderthals should be shown as to the right of humans, in the usual "ascent of man" ...
The researchers also looked for signs of "selective sweeps" - strong natural selection acting to boost traits in modern humans. They found 212 regions where positive selection may have been taking place. The scientists are interested in discovering genes that distinguish modern humans from Neanderthal...
the same location is a human skull dated to 55,000 years ago that was discovered in acavein western Galilee,Israel. Neanderthals were known to haveinhabitedthe southernLevantduring that time, and the discovery suggests that Neanderthals and modern humans may have first encountered one another then...
As already noted, many Neanderthal traits seem to have been the result of isolation and random genetic drift. Other features, such as the large front teeth, may reflect an evolutionary response to aspects of their environment other than low temperature. Nevertheless, many features of Neanderthal an...
facial morphology in modern humans. In this case, the possibility of examining similar skull traits in contemporary human and Neanderthal skulls allowed us to determine that the increase in mid-face height associated with archaic introgression in 1q32.3 is consistent with the modern human-Neanderthal...
We next assessed whether the cis-pQTL for OAS1 levels (rs4767027) was associated with over 5,000 other diseases, traits or protein levels, as catalogued in PhenoScanner23.rs4767027was not associated with any other traits or protein levels (P < 5.0 × 10−5). These findings redu...