Work on the Neanderthal Genome Project is starting to bear fruit as two scientific papers are published in journals Nature and Science. So far a large portion of the Neanderthal DNA has been assembled. The Neanderthal, who became extinct 24,000 years ago may be our closest relatives!!!(not those you collected ang pao from)
The DNA information obtained comes in part from a Neanderthal thigh bone, and has allowed scientists to identify more than a million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA. Professor Edward Rubin with the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek California, used cutting-edge DNA sequencing techniques to collect genetic material from a Neanderthal femur bone found in the Vindija Cave, Croatia. lative.
Scientists in Germany and the US are beginning a groundbreaking study to sequence the DNA of Neandertal fossils.The project, which intends to sequence the entire 3 billion base pairs that make up the Neandertal genome, hopes to clarify the evolutionary relationship between human and Neandertals. Using the already sequenced human and chimpansee genomes, the scientists hope to identify those genetic changes that enabled humans to migrate out of Africa and spread around the world.
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