TWiEVO 8: Everyone's a little bit Neanderthal - a podcast by Vincent Racaniello
from 2016-06-08T15:35:04
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Nels visits Vincent in the MicrobeTV studio in New York and talks about how key genes of the Homo sapiens innate immune response were acquired from Neanderthals.
Links for this episode
- Introgressed Neanderthal haplotype at OAS locus (biorXiv)
- Genetic time travel (Genetics)
- Genetic history of Ice Age Europe (Nature)
- Letters read on TWiEVO 8
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