The Impact of Modern Admixture on Archaic Human Ancestry in Human Populations.

ABSTRACT: Admixture, the genetic merging of parental populations resulting in mixed ancestry, has occurred frequently throughout the course of human history. Numerous admixture events have occurred between human populations across the world, which have shaped genetic ancestry in modern humans. For example, populations in the Americas are often mosaics of different ancestries due to recent admixture events as part of European colonization. Admixed individuals also often have introgressed DNA from Neanderthals and Denisovans that may have come from multiple ancestral populations, which may affect how archaic ancestry is distributed across an admixed genome. In this study, we analyzed admixed populations from the Americas to assess whether the proportion and location of admixed segments due to recent a

SUBMITTER: Witt KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10194819 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature