Search Results - "Dannemann, Michael"
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The Contribution of Neanderthals to Phenotypic Variation in Modern Humans
Published in American journal of human genetics (05-10-2017)“…Assessing the genetic contribution of Neanderthals to non-disease phenotypes in modern humans has been difficult because of the absence of large cohorts for…”
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Something old, something borrowed: admixture and adaptation in human evolution
Published in Current opinion in genetics & development (01-12-2018)“…The sequencing of ancient DNA from archaic humans—Neanderthals and Denisovans—has revealed that modern and archaic humans interbred at least twice during the…”
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The genomic landscape of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans
Published in Nature (London) (20-03-2014)“…In the modern human genome, elevated Neanderthal ancestry is found at genes affecting keratin filaments, suggesting that gene flow with Neanderthals helped…”
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Functional implications of Neandertal introgression in modern humans
Published in Genome Biology (03-04-2017)“…Admixture between early modern humans and Neandertals approximately 50,000-60,000 years ago has resulted in 1.5-4% Neandertal ancestry in the genomes of…”
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Detecting ancient positive selection in humans using extended lineage sorting
Published in Genome research (01-09-2017)“…Natural selection that affected modern humans early in their evolution has likely shaped some of the traits that set present-day humans apart from their…”
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A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (03-11-2017)“…To date, the only Neandertal genome that has been sequenced to high quality is from an individual found in Southern Siberia. We sequenced the genome of a…”
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Excavating Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the genomes of Melanesian individuals
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (08-04-2016)“…Although Neandertal sequences that persist in the genomes of modern humans have been identified in Eurasians, comparable studies in people whose ancestors…”
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Genetic Adaptation and Neandertal Admixture Shaped the Immune System of Human Populations
Published in Cell (20-10-2016)“…Humans differ in the outcome that follows exposure to life-threatening pathogens, yet the extent of population differences in immune responses and their…”
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A Neanderthal Sodium Channel Increases Pain Sensitivity in Present-Day Humans
Published in Current biology (07-09-2020)“…The sodium channel Nav1.7 is crucial for impulse generation and conduction in peripheral pain pathways [1]. In Neanderthals, the Nav1.7 protein carried three…”
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Humanized Foxp2 accelerates learning by enhancing transitions from declarative to procedural performance
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-09-2014)“…The acquisition of language and speech is uniquely human, but how genetic changes might have adapted the nervous system to this capacity is not well…”
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Quantitative Human Paleogenetics: What can Ancient DNA Tell us About Complex Trait Evolution?
Published in Frontiers in genetics (04-08-2021)“…Genetic association data from national biobanks and large-scale association studies have provided new prospects for understanding the genetic evolution of…”
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Transcriptional neoteny in the human brain
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (07-04-2009)“…In development, timing is of the utmost importance, and the timing of developmental processes often changes as organisms evolve. In human evolution,…”
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Positive selection in the genomes of two Papua New Guinean populations at distinct altitude levels
Published in Nature communications (30-04-2024)“…Highlanders and lowlanders of Papua New Guinea have faced distinct environmental stress, such as hypoxia and environment-specific pathogen exposure,…”
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Cell atlas of the regenerating human liver after portal vein embolization
Published in Nature communications (11-07-2024)“…The liver has the remarkable capacity to regenerate. In the clinic, regeneration is induced by portal vein embolization, which redirects portal blood flow,…”
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Using the Neandertal genome to study the evolution of small insertions and deletions in modern humans
Published in BMC evolutionary biology (04-08-2017)“…Small insertions and deletions occur in humans at a lower rate compared to nucleotide changes, but evolve under more constraint than nucleotide changes. While…”
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PatMaN: rapid alignment of short sequences to large databases
Published in Bioinformatics (01-07-2008)“…We present a tool suited for searching for many short nucleotide sequences in large databases, allowing for a predefined number of gaps and mismatches. The…”
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High-throughput sequencing of the melanoma genome
Published in Experimental dermatology (01-01-2013)“…Next‐generation sequencing technologies are now common for whole‐genome, whole‐exome and whole‐transcriptome sequencing (RNA‐seq) of tumors to identify point…”
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A novel compound heterozygous leptin receptor mutation causes more severe obesity than in Leprdb/db mice
Published in Journal of lipid research (01-01-2021)“…The leptin receptor (Lepr) pathway is important for food intake regulation, energy expenditure, and body weight. Mutations in leptin and the Lepr have been…”
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Contesting the presence of wheat in the British Isles 8,000 years ago by assessing ancient DNA authenticity from low-coverage data
Published in eLife (03-11-2015)“…Contamination with exogenous DNA is a constant hazard to ancient DNA studies, since their validity greatly depend on the ancient origin of the retrieved…”
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Neandertal introgression partitions the genetic landscape of neuropsychiatric disorders and associated behavioral phenotypes
Published in Translational psychiatry (05-10-2022)“…Despite advances in identifying the genetic basis of psychiatric and neurological disorders, fundamental questions about their evolutionary origins remain…”
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