One skeleton from Denmark (Jorgen 625) showed extraordinary preservation of the pathogen DNA, allowing a genome reconstruction without using
a modern reference sequence, which was never done before for an ancient organism's genome.
Not exact matches
Determining the composition of pooled samples can be difficult, especially at the scale of
modern sequencing data and
reference databases.
We identified rare variants with allele frequency up to 1 % in a
reference panel of 433 European individuals from
modern Finland, Spain, Italy, Netherlands and Denmark, for which genome - wide
sequence data are available16, 17,18.
The distance between Mezmaiskaya and a particular
modern human
sequence known as the
reference sequence (Anderson et al. 1981) was 22, compared to 27 for the first Neandertal.
Note that (in
reference to Krings et al. 2007) because two
modern human
sequences are 24 bases apart, while the smallest Neandertal / human difference is only 22, this does not mean that the Neandertal
sequence is within the range of
modern humans.
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