Neanderthal and Denisovan retroviruses in modern humans
In the June 5th 2012 issue of Current Biology, Agoni et al.[1] reported finding 14 endogenous retrovirus (ERV) loci in the genome sequences of Neanderthal and/or Denisovan fossils (both ∼40,000 years old) that are not found in the human reference genome sequence. The authors [1] concluded that these...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Cell Press
2013
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3923971/ |