PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Diyendo Massilani
AU  - Laurits Skov
AU  - Mateja Hajdinjak
AU  - Byambaa Gunchinsuren
AU  - Damdinsuren Tseveendorj
AU  - Seonbok Yi
AU  - Jungeun Lee
AU  - Sarah Nagel
AU  - Birgit Nickel
AU  - Thibaut Devièse
AU  - Tom Higham
AU  - Matthias Meyer
AU  - Janet Kelso
AU  - Benjamin M. Peter
AU  - Svante Pääbo
TI  - Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians
AID  - 10.1101/2020.06.03.131995
DP  - 2020 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2020.06.03.131995
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/06/03/2020.06.03.131995.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/06/03/2020.06.03.131995.full
AB  - We present analyses of the genome of a ~34,000-year-old hominin skull cap discovered in the Salkhit Valley in North East Mongolia. We show that this individual was a female member of a modern human population that, following the split between East and West Eurasians, experienced substantial gene flow from West Eurasians. Both she and a 40,000-year-old individual from Tianyuan outside Beijing carried genomic segments of Denisovan ancestry. These segments derive from the same Denisovan admixture event(s) that contributed to present-day mainland Asians but are distinct from the Denisovan DNA segments in present-day Papuans and Aboriginal Australians.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.