Dark Centers of Chromosomes Reveal Ancient DNA (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Dark Centers of Chromosomes Reveal Ancient DNA

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The central area of chromosomes, the centromere, contains DNA that has survived largely unchanged for hundreds of thousands of years, researchers at UC Davis and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory have found. Some of this DNA comes from Neanderthals or other relatives or ancestors of humans from before modern humans migrated out of Africa.

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Charles and Sasha Langley

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