The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains.

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Published in Nature on December 18, 2013

Authors

Kay Prüfer1, Fernando Racimo2, Nick Patterson3, Flora Jay2, Sriram Sankararaman4, Susanna Sawyer1, Anja Heinze1, Gabriel Renaud1, Peter H Sudmant5, Cesare de Filippo1, Heng Li3, Swapan Mallick4, Michael Dannemann1, Qiaomei Fu6, Martin Kircher7, Martin Kuhlwilm1, Michael Lachmann1, Matthias Meyer1, Matthias Ongyerth1, Michael Siebauer1, Christoph Theunert1, Arti Tandon4, Priya Moorjani8, Joseph Pickrell8, James C Mullikin9, Samuel H Vohr10, Richard E Green10, Ines Hellmann11, Philip L F Johnson12, Hélène Blanche13, Howard Cann13, Jacob O Kitzman5, Jay Shendure5, Evan E Eichler14, Ed S Lein15, Trygve E Bakken15, Liubov V Golovanova16, Vladimir B Doronichev16, Michael V Shunkov17, Anatoli P Derevianko17, Bence Viola18, Montgomery Slatkin2, David Reich19, Janet Kelso1, Svante Pääbo1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
2: Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3140, USA.
3: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
4: 1] Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA [2] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
5: Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
6: 1] Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany [2] Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China.
7: 1] Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany [2] Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
8: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
9: Genome Technology Branch and NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
10: Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.
11: 1] Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Mathematics and Bioscience Group, Campus Vienna Biocenter 5, Vienna 1030, Austria [2] Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Martinsried, 82152 Munich, Germany.
12: Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.
13: Fondation Jean Dausset, Centre d'Étude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH), 75010 Paris, France.
14: 1] Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
15: Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington 98103, USA.
16: ANO Laboratory of Prehistory 14 Linia 3-11, St. Petersburg 1990 34, Russia.
17: Palaeolithic Department, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
18: Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
19: 1] Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA [2] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [3] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

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