Stéphane Peyrégne

TL;DR: The genome of a female Neandertal from ~50,000 years ago from Vindija Cave, Croatia, is sequenced to ~30-fold genomic coverage, allowing 10 to 20% more Ne andertal DNA to be identified in present-day humans, including variants involved in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations, schizophrenia, and other diseases.

TL;DR: The genome of ‘Denisova 11’, a bone fragment from Denisova Cave (Russia) is presented and it is shown that it comes from an individual who had a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.

TL;DR: The genome of a Neandertal from Chagyrskaya Cave in the Altai Mountains, Russia, is sequenced to 27-fold genomic coverage and it is found that genes highly expressed in the Striatum in the basal ganglia of the brain carry more amino-acid-changing substitutions than genes expressed elsewhere in the brain, suggesting that the striatum may have evolved unique functions in NeandERTals.

TL;DR: A method for detecting ancient selective sweeps by scanning for extended genomic regions where the authors' closest extinct relatives, Neandertals and Denisovans, fall outside of the present-day human variation and presents a list of genomic regions that are predicted to underlie positively selected human specific traits.

TL;DR: Nasa retrieved nuclear genomic sequences from two Neandertals, one from Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave in Germany and the other from Scladina Cave in Belgium, who lived around 120,000 years ago, revealing the deep population history of European Ne andertals.