Different historical generation intervals in human populations inferred from Neanderthal fragment lengths and mutation signatures

Historical interbreeding between Neanderthals and humans should leave signatures of historical demographics in modern human genomes. Analysing the size distribution of Neanderthal fragments in non-African genomes suggests consistent differences in the generation interval across Eurasia, and that thi...

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Main Authors: Moisès Coll Macià, Laurits Skov, Benjamin Marco Peter, Mikkel Heide Schierup
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25524-4