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The article doesn't mention the percentages, which is disappointing
by ryan_j_naughton 5y ago
The article doesn't mention the percentages, which is disappointing
- jacobsievers 5y agoFrom the article: "Compared with Australians and Papuans, the Negritos’ Denisovan ancestry was up to 46 per cent higher..."
- Fordec 5y ago46 percent higher than what? Do Australians have 0% of total? 50% of total?
- DoingIsLearning 5y ago> Denisovans apparently interbred with modern humans, with about 3–5% of the DNA of Melanesians and Aboriginal Australians and around 7–8% in Papuans deriving from Denisovans. [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan
- im3w1l 5y agoDo they have the same 7-8%? Or one piece of the puzzle each?
- sandworm101 5y ago46% higher, but what total percentage of DNA is Denisovan?
- pcrh 5y agoJust under 4%, figure 3D https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(21)00977-5.pdf https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(21)00977...
- codezero 5y agoIt’s hard to sus an absolute percent but my best guess from some figures is 5% but I could be way way off.
- jhart99 5y agoThey give confidence intervals in the text for about 51 MB(mega bases) which would be about 2 percent or so if that was across the whole mappable genome. Just a note that does not translate to 2% different genes or something, but rather that specific mutations they know can be traced back to a specific population. Most would have no effect.
- ImaCake 5y agoThe published academic article seems to estimate an upper bound of about 4%, but I might be interpreting that wrong. It is worth noting that the information is here based on single nucleotide variants which don’t tell us everything about the genome, but a convenient proxy for most of it.