
Gràcies al genoma en perfectes condicions de la Senyora X (Siberia, fa 40.000 anys) s'han pogut detectar nous indicis d'hibridació que es consoliden als melanesis de l'est d'Indonèsia i Melanèsia: res que no sapiguessim. El que passa és que hi ha dades molt interessants (copio el resum sencer):
"Recent analysis of DNA extracted from two Eurasian forms of archaic human show that more genetic variants are shared with humans currently living in Eurasia than with anatomically modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa. While these genome-wide average measures of genetic similarity are consistent with the hypothesis of archaic admixture in Eurasia, analyses of individual loci exhibiting the signal of archaic introgression are needed to test alternative hypotheses and investigate the admixture process. Here, we provide a detailed sequence analysis of the innate immune gene, OAS1, a locus with a divergent Melanesian haplotype that is very similar to the Denisova sequence from the Altai region of Siberia. We re-sequenced a 7 kb region encompassing the OAS1 gene in 88 individuals from 6 Old World populations (San, Biaka, Mandenka, French Basque, Han Chinese, and Papua New Guineans) and discovered previously unknown and ancient genetic variation. The 5' region of this gene has unusual patterns of diversity, including 1) higher levels of nucleotide diversity in Papuans than in sub-Saharan Africans, 2) very deep ancestry with an estimated time to the most recent common ancestor of >3 million years, and 3) a basal branching pattern with Papuan individuals on either side of the rooted network. A global geographic survey of >1500 individuals showed that the divergent Papuan haplotype is nearly restricted to populations from eastern Indonesia and Melanesia. Polymorphic sites within this haplotype are shared with the draft Denisova genome over a span of ∼90 kb and are associated with an extended block of linkage disequilibrium, supporting the hypothesis that this haplotype introgressed from an archaic source that likely lived in Eurasia. "
INTERESSANTÍSSIM. I el millor de tot: què passara demà? No sé si podré dormir... bona nit!
La font, que me n'oblido:
http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/13/molbev.msr301.short?rss=1
Afortunadament en Maju del For what they were... we are ha obtingut una còpia de l'estudi i ha penjat un parell d'imatges molt interessants al seu blog. Feu clic aquí per llegir l'entrada.
Pel que sembla, aquest gen també es troba a molt baixa frequència a la Índia i sud asiàtic, on sabem que també hi vivien erectus, però no a l'Àsia de l'est. Com que la data de 3 milions d'anys sobrepassa la migració erectusiana fora d'Àfrica, que va tenir lloc en fa 2, ja hi ha gent que proposa que en realitat el gen el van passar.... els Hòbbits, que algú ha suggerit que podrien ser Australopitecins. Sí senyor, l'evolució humana és increïble.











