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.
Read MorePublished in The Hindu on May 12, 2011 How long back did the last of the Neanderthals walk in some
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Did Neanderthals and modern humans interbreed? While several methods, including the study of mitochondrial DNA of Neanderthals, failed to
Read MorePublished in The Hindu on March 25, 2010 A team of scientists has successfully sequenced mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of a
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The successful completion of a rough draft of the Neanderthal genome — this is the first time that a genome
Read MorePublished in The Hindu on February 19, 2009 Preliminary study of the Neanderthal genome reveals many thousands of differences between
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