This DNADay, learn more about the ancient DNA from a Siberian cave that revealed the first known father-daughter pair of Neanderthals. 🧬
More than 49,000 years ago, a family of Neanderthals set up camp in a cave high in Siberia's Altai Mountains, overlooking a river valley where bison, red deer, and wild horses roamed. In the cave's main gallery, a teenage girl lost a tooth, perhaps while gnawing on bison that her father or his kin had hunted in the sweeping grasslands.
"It's really remarkable that they managed to get genomes from seven males at one site," says paleogeneticist Cosimo Posth at Tübingen University."For this group in this cave, it is indeed suggestive that they lived in small groups of closely related males." The researchers analyzed DNA from more than 700,000 sites across the genomes from seven males and five females from Chagyrskaya, and from a male and a female from Okladnikov. They found family ties: The nuclear DNA from one Chagyrskaya bone fragment linked the father to the tooth shed by his teenage daughter. Some individuals shared two types of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA .
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