The D - statistics revealed that no domesticated horse shares
more derived alleles than any other domesticated horse with the ancient horses when examining quartets, including two domesticated horses, one ancient horse, and the domestic donkey (Domesticated1, Domesticated2; Ancient, Donkey).
«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.
As expected, European dogs share
more derived alleles with the ancient dogs than Indian village dogs, with ratios of 1.186 — 1.217 for HXH and 1.195 — 1.231 for NGD (Supplementary Table 17).
Not exact matches
By analyzing imputed data for a large number of human traits, we empirically
derive a model that
more accurately describes how heritability varies with minor
allele frequency (MAF), linkage disequilibrium (LD) and genotype certainty.