Modern humans and Neanderthals likely shared the plains and forests of Eurasia for 6,000 to 7,000 years. As bands of Homo sapiens spread across the continent, they carried Neanderthal DNA with them.

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Some of the genetic variations in human DNA that have been linked to quick clotting or depression or diabetes lie within or near the genetic stretches we picked up from Neanderthals, a study finds.

Identifying new genetic mutations has gotten easier and cheaper. But geneticists often struggle to find patients who share these rare DNA quirks.

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been off ...

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Scientists have pieced together a new draft of the human genome that better captures humanity’s genetic diversity. The new “pangenome” incorporates the DNA of 47 individuals from every ...

DNA from these and other finds suggests that human populations in several parts of Africa genetically split from each other more than 200,000 years ago. Isabelle Ribot ...

Aaron Quinlan, PhD, professor and chair of human genetics in SFESOM and an author on the study, says that previous efforts to study human genetic change were limited to the parts of the genome that ...