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Dec. 18, 2013 — The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

Add to this extant biogeography, Neanderthal DNA sequences clearly showing their distinction from H. sapiens, demonstrable speciation in the lab and in the field, etc, etc..

Recently, this phylogenetic evidence has extended to support predicted evolutionary relationships between extant and extinct forms (i.e. Neanderthals, mastadons, and if one includes collagen sequences, T. rex).

For example, one DNA sequence that originated from Neanderthals includes a genetic variant linked to celiac disease.

Practically nobody believed you could read a Neanderthal's genes until 2010, when the paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo successfully sequenced DNA from three Neanderthal skeletons found in Croatia.

The research, published on Oct. 13 in Genome Biology and Evolution, analyzes the genetic material of people living in the region today, identifying DNA sequences inherited from Neanderthals.

Now that the whole Neanderthal genome has been sequenced, Harvard geneticist George Church thinks a clone could be gestated in a human surrogate mother.

Suddenly, things are looking up: Pääbo recently declared he has found nuclear DNA (the global kind) in a 45,000 - year - old Croatian Neanderthal museum specimen and has sequenced a million base pairs of it.

And since the cost of genome sequencing has plummeted to one - thousandth of its initial cost, it's clear that the Neanderthal, a 700,000 - year - old horse and the woolly mammoth will simply be the first of many ancient genomes to be sequenced.

The Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes sequenced in recent years are each around 40,000 years old.

The DNA sequence from a male hunter - gatherer also offers tantalizing clues about modern humans» journey from Africa to Europe, Asia and beyond, as well as their sexual encounters with Neanderthals.

By comparing it with that of modern humans, chimpanzees and bonobos, plus Neanderthals and Denisovans, Meyer estimated its age at 400,000 years, twice as old as our own species and far older than any hominin genome previously sequenced (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature12788).

But in 2015 researchers sequenced enough authentic code to show that the man had a Neanderthal ancestor a mere four to six generations back.

The Hayes team therefore worked with the world's leading laboratory in ancient DNA research, namely that of paleogeneticist Professor Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolgy in Leipzig, Germany, who successfully sequenced a Neanderthal.

Sequencing the genome of the Denisovans, a mysterious group of prehistoric hominins, suggests that interbreeding between Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans seems to have been common, rather than the rarity previously assumed — which further drives home the idea that we are the sole survivors of a precarious evolutionary process, rather than the end of a neat line of descent.

Intact mitochondrial DNA sequences have been reported for Neanderthals and a number of extinct ice - age mammals, but the full promise of fossil DNA has yet to be realised.

To reach this conclusion, Pääbo and his team spent years sequencing the complete genome of three Neanderthal bones from the Vindija Cave in Croatia and compared the results with the genomes of five modern humans from southern Africa, West Africa, Papua New Guinea, China, and Western Europe.

Using DNA sequencing, scientists have learned that anatomically modern humans interbred with Homo neanderthalensis, or the Neanderthals, probably around 60,000 years ago in the Middle East, before they fanned out to populate Europe and Asia.

Subsequent sequencing of the nuclear genome followed, revealing that the pinkie came from a previously unknown hominid group, similar to Neanderthals, that migrated east toward Asia while Neanderthals migrated west.

In 2010 the team discovered a new kind of human, cousins to Neanderthals called Denisovans, by sequencing DNA from a 50,000 - year - old pinkie finger found in a high - altitude Siberian cave in Denisova.

However, the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-- a small segment of maternally inherited DNA outside the main nuclear sequence — is more closely related to Denisovans than Neanderthals.

The oldest DNA of a modern human ever to be sequenced shows that the Homo sapiens who interbred with the Neanderthals were very modern — not just anatomically but with modern behaviour including painting, modern tools, music and jewellery.

They also compared the human genomes with recently sequenced genomes of Neanderthals and Denisovans and found similar genetic variation, which indicates that the facial variation in modern humans must have originated prior to the split between these different lineages.

Then, in 2010, Pääbo and colleagues published a draft sequence of the Neanderthal's nuclear genome — 4 billion nucleotides — based on three individuals.

Richard Green, a computational biologist in Svante Pääbo's group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, published [subscription required] the first sequence of a 38,000 - year - old Neanderthal's complete mitochondrial DNA in August.

The sequence fixes the split between the modern human and Neanderthal branches at about 660,000 years ago.

Where the Neanderthal had gene variants for a larger skull, for instance, Church would use MAGE to modify the nucleotide sequences that constituted those genes in one or more of the chunks of human DNA.

David Reich of Harvard Medical School in Boston has now sequenced the Neanderthal genome and that of another extinct human, the Denisovan, to an unprecedented degree of accuracy.

Pääbo will continue sequencing Neanderthal DNA until he has a genome that is similar in completion and quality to the existing map of the chimpanzee genome.

On February 12, 2009 (the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth), paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany announced that he and a team of researchers had sequenced about 63 percent of the Neanderthal genome.

Pääbo created it by sequencing DNA from fragments of bone (most of it from the Vindija cave in Croatia) to get 3 billion Neanderthal base pairs essentially uncontaminated by human DNA or by microbes.

Previous claims of fossil DNA finds have not been verified; the oldest DNA yet recovered comes from Neanderthals up to about 50,000 years old (see Neanderthals have genome chunk sequenced).

The oldest DNA of a modern human ever to be sequenced shows that the Homo sapiens that interbred with the Neanderthals were very modern — not just anatomically but with modern behaviour including painting, modern tools, music and jewellery.

An analysis of its sequence provided strong evidence that Neanderthals lie on a separate branch of the human family tree and are not our direct ancestors.

Recently he set out to sequence the complete Neanderthal genome within two years, in preparation for a side - by - side comparison with our own.

Svante Pääbo Last year Pääbo announced a plan to sequence the entire Neanderthal genome by 2008 and compare our extinct relative's genes with the genes of chimpanzees and humans.

«Even a few years ago, I didn't imagine it would be possible to sequence the whole Neanderthal genome,» he says.

«I was looking to see if I could find regions in the genome where the Neanderthal genome from Siberia has sequences resembling those in humans.

In 2014 alone, scientists successfully sequenced the mitochondrial genome of a hominin that lived more than 400,000 years ago, 1 exomes from the bones of two Neanderthal individuals more than 40,000 years old, 2 and a nearly complete nuclear genome from a 45,000 - year - old modern human fossil, 3 to name but a few.

We provided just a small contribution to the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome, but here is a link to that story:

Two separate teams of researchers have used advanced DNA sequencing methods to analyze the 52,000 - year - old remains of a Neanderthal woman from Vindija...

«One important insight stems from the observation that modern non-Africans and archaic populations share more derived alleles than they should if there was no admixture between them,» Bohlender said, citing that sequencing of complete Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes offers insights into human history.

Around 40,000 years ago, a sequence of three major volcanic eruptions devastated Neanderthal homelands in Europe and Asia, speeding the demise of this species.

Analysis of an archaic genome sequence indicated that the risk haplotype introgressed into modern humans via admixture with Neanderthals.

But ancient - DNA sequencing is beginning to shed some light on the issue.11 For example, by comparing a human HAR sequence with the HAR sequence of an archaic hominin, researchers can estimate if the HAR mutated before, after, or during the time period of our common ancestor.12 This approach has revealed that the rate at which HAR mutations emerged was slightly higher before we split from Neanderthals and Denisovans.3, 13 As a result, most HAR mutations are millions of years old and shared with these extinct hominins (but not with chimpanzees).

The achievement marks only the second time that a Neanderthal genome has been sequenced in detail.

Prüfer and her team compared the newly generated sequence to that of the earlier detailed one for what is known as the Altai Neanderthal, whose remains were found in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia.

The researchers also compared these two sequences to those of still other known Neanderthals, such as the Mezmaiskaya Neanderthal of southern Russia.

«I was looking to see if I could find genomic regions where the Altai Neanderthal has sequences resembling those we see in humans,» says Martin Kuhlwilm.

The modern human sequences in the Altai Neanderthal appear to derive from a group of modern human ancestors from Africa that separated early from other humans, about the time present - day African populations diverged from one another, around 200,000 years ago.