India's evolutionary past tied to huge migration 50,000 years ago and to now-extinct human relatives

[admin]

Modern Indians inherited genes from what is now Tajikistan and a diverse set of DNA from Neanderthals and Denisovans, new research reveals.

India's evolutionary past tied to huge migration 50,000 years ago and to now-extinct human relatives : Read more

 

[Ralph Dratman]

This surprising statement -- "the researchers compared the DNA of modern Indians to that of sequenced Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes and found that Indians, like most non-Africans, inherited between 1% and 2% of their DNA from these groups. This DNA is highly diverse: Almost 90% of all known Neanderthal genes found in humans outside of Africa were detected in the Indian genomes studied" -- suggests that some modern Indians might have a lot more Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA, and that other Indians might have none!