University of California Berkley scientists conducted the largest ever genome study of South Asian people by sequencing the DNA of 2762 people from India.
Publishing the results as a preprint that has not yet been peer-reviewed, the scientists discovered a wide range of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA sequences in modern Indian people.
'Strikingly, [about] 90.7 percent of worldwide Neanderthal sequences are seen in India… and around 51 percent of Denisovan sequences are unique to India,' wrote the authors.
The scientists hope that a full Neanderthal genome can be constructed from living humans, rather than relying on ancient DNA.
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