The microcephalin ancestral allele in a Neanderthal individual.

<h4>Background</h4>The high frequency (around 0.70 worldwide) and the relatively young age (between 14,000 and 62,000 years) of a derived group of haplotypes, haplogroup D, at the microcephalin (MCPH1) locus led to the proposal that haplogroup D originated in a human lineage that separat...

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Main Authors: Martina Lari, Ermanno Rizzi, Lucio Milani, Giorgio Corti, Carlotta Balsamo, Stefania Vai, Giulio Catalano, Elena Pilli, Laura Longo, Silvana Condemi, Paolo Giunti, Catherine Hänni, Gianluca De Bellis, Ludovic Orlando, Guido Barbujani, David Caramelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-05-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20498832/?tool=EBI