GE CLST M71CW Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: 454 Life Sciences, Neanderthal Genome Project, Computational Biology

• School: UCLA
• Department: General Education Clusters
• Course: GE CLST M71CW
• Professor: Rensel, M.A.; Le Goff, A.G.; Panofsky, A.L.

Document Summary

This research article presents data revolving around the genome sequencing of dna from 3. Neanderthal individuals and an in depth comparative analyses of the data with that of 5 present day humans. It encompasses a draft sequence of the neanderthal genome that comprises over 4 billion nucleotides. The article was authored by richard e. green and several engineers, Biomedical researches, palaeontologists, epidemiologists and experts from other fields, who were involved in the neanderthal genome project. Richard green is a computational biologist at the university of california santa cruz and has been the coordinator for the neanderthal. The article argues that neandertals had more genetic variability with present-day humans in eurasia than with present-day humans in sub-saharan africa. Thus, it contends that gene flow from neandertals into the ancestors of non-africans occurred prior to the divergence of. The article explains the implications of this finding in how it raises questions about human ancestry, breeding and gene flow.