Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Did variants in inborn errors of immunity genes contribute to the extinction of Neanderthals?
Z. Zhou, S. M. A. Swagemakers, M. S. Lourens…·P. M. van Hagen
The paper investigates whether harmful immune-related genetic variants from Neanderthals contributed to their extinction by analyzing variants in inborn errors of immunity genes across Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes.
DOI 10.1101/2022.10.19.512108