Neandertal Genome project
A draft sequence and preliminary analysis of the Neandertal genome
A draft sequence of the Neandertal genome composed of over 3 billion nucleotides from three individuals. Through comparisons of the Neandertal genome to the genomes of five present-day humans from different parts of the world allowed the analysis of admixture between Neandertals and ancestral modern humans, as well as the identifcation of a number of genomic regions that may have been affected by positive selection in ancestral modern humans.