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2021.09.13 | Research news
The authors from Aarhus University in Denmark and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany with PhD student Moisès Coll Macià, BiRC, as first author of the study used Neanderthal fragments scattered in non-African genomes as molecular clocks to estimate generation intervals in Eurasian and American populations.
2021.07.07 | Research news
Doug Speed, together with colleagues from BiRC and NCRR, have recently developed improved methods for predicting complex traits. Their work has this week been published in the journal Nature Communications.
2020.04.23 | Research news
An international team of researchers has put together a new image of Neanderthals based on the genes Neanderthals left in the DNA of modern humans when they had children with them about 50,000 years ago. The researchers found the new pieces of the puzzle by trawling the genomes of more than 27,000 Icelanders.
