Sequencing extinct human ancestors Credits to Vanessa Patel for some of the slides
Archaeology – “the scientific study of material remains (as fossil relics, artifacts, and monuments) of past human life and activities”
Studies the time period starting at the Paleolithic time until the advent of literacy
Archaeology
From bones, compared genomes of three different Neanderthals with five genomes from modern humans from different areas of the world
The Neanderthal Genome
Figure 1- R. E. Green et al., Science 328, 710-722 (2010)
Fixation, Positive & Negative Selection
Neutral Drift Positive SelectionNegative Selection
How can we detect negative
selection?
How can we detect positive
selection?
How can we detect positive selection?
Ka/Ks ratio:Ratio of nonsynonymous tosynonymous substitutions
Very old, persistent, strong positive selection for a protein that keeps adapting
Examples: immune response, spermatogenesis
How can we detect positive selection?