Neanderthal genetics
Genetic study of ancient Neanderthal DNA
Summary
Neanderthal genetics testing became possible in the 1990s with advances in ancient DNA analysis. In 2008, the Neanderthal genome project published the full sequence Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and in 2010 the full Neanderthal genome. Genetic data is useful in testing hypotheses about Neanderthal evolution and their divergence from early modern humans, as well as understanding Neanderthal demography, and interbreeding between archaic and modern humans.
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It is misleading to call non-coding DNA "junk" - while large proportions of it may not have (well defined) function, it is critical to genetic regulation and includes non-expressed but still transcribed RNAs.
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No citation or explanation. Non-coding DNA could be "introns, pseudogenes, intergenic DNA, and fragments of transposons and viruses." While "Regions that are completely nonfunctional are called junk" The parenthetical is unsubstantiated and narrows down the functions of ncDNA too much for the context of this article.
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