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A view of Neandertal genetic diversity

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Figure 1: Schematic phylogenetic tree of 2 Neandertal mtDNA and 663 contemporary humans

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Acknowledgements

We thank H. Poinar for discussions and synthesis of PTB; C. Färber and S. Gross for technical support; W. Schartau for primer synthesis; J. Bark and P. Gill for experimental help; K. Strimmer and F. Burckhardt for help with databases and computer programs; A. Greenwood, J. Hey, S. Hornung, M. Stoneking, L. Vigilant and D. Serre for help and discussions; and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Max Planck Gesellschaft for financial support.

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  1. Frank Tschentscher

    Present address: Institute for Human Genetics, University Clinic, Essen, Germany

  2. Matthias Krings, Cristian Capelli and Frank Tschentscher: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

    Matthias Krings, Sonja Meyer, Arndt von Haeseler & Svante Pääbo

  2. Institute of Legal Medicine, Catholic University of S. Cuore, Rome, Italy

    Cristian Capelli

  3. Institute of Zoology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Helga Geisert

  4. Institute for Histology and Embryology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Karl Grossschmidt

  5. Division of Ion Physics, Ångström Laboratory, P.O. Box 534, Uppsala, Sweden

    Göran Possnert

  6. Institute of Quaternary Paleontology and Geology of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, A. Kovacica 5/II, Zagreb, Croatia

    Maja Paunovic

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Krings, M., Capelli, C., Tschentscher, F. et al. A view of Neandertal genetic diversity. Nat Genet 26, 144–146 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/79855

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