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Modern men lack Y chromosome genes from Neanderthals
The Neanderthal Y-chromosome genes may have disappeared from the human genome long ago, a new study has found. The Y chromosome is one of two human sex chromosomes. Unlike the X chromosome, the Y chromosome is passed exclusively from father to son.
Washington: The Neanderthal Y-chromosome genes may have disappeared from the human genome long ago, a new study has found. The Y chromosome is one of two human sex chromosomes. Unlike the X chromosome, the Y chromosome is passed exclusively from father to son.
Previous research has shown that the DNA of modern humans is from 2.5 to 4 per cent Neanderthal DNA, a legacy of breeding between modern humans and Neanderthals 50,000 years ago. Researchers found that unlike other kinds of DNA, the Neanderthal Y chromosome DNA was apparently not passed to modern humans during this time.
"We have never observed the Neanderthal Y chromosome DNA in any human sample ever tested. That does not prove it is totally extinct, but it likely is," said Carlos Bustamante from Stanford University in the US. The Neanderthal Y chromosome genes could have simply drifted out of the human gene pool by chance over the millennia.
