April 1, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

April 1, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Denisovans

DenisovansGenome sequencingHealthNeanderthalPalaeoscience

A Genomic Portrait of India: Tracing Deep Ancestry, Health, and Disease Risk using DNA

Whole-genome sequencing of 2,762 Indians has unravelled the layers of ancestry, high intermixing with Neanderthals and Denisovans — which allowed the reconstruction of roughly half of the Neanderthal genome and one-fifth of the Denisovan genome using only Indian genomes — and high endogamy in India resulting in harmful mutations in some groups.

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