Comments on: New Evidence Suggests Interbreeding Between Humans and Neanderthals

By: Bernal

Bernal — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:58:26 +0000

Dear David

Are there known specific Neanderthal X-chromosome SNPs?
So that can be explored if there is still any detectable difference in the frequency of Neanderthal segments between this chromosome and the rest of genome.

By: Amanda R

Amanda R — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:04:33 +0000

Please disregard my last post. My husband does have SNP’s for Neanderthal. I clearly do not understand the difference between the ancesteral and the OOA component here. I feel like I am in first grade again even though I’m a nurse and have studied genetics. This is so fascinating, I really want to understand it. Thanks for your help!

By: Amanda R

Amanda R — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:35:42 +0000

Another interesting note… My husband has also participated with 23 & Me and is listed in my account. So, when I run a SNP his name shows up under mine. He does not have any of these SNP’s. He is 100% Jew (I’m not), don’t know if that makes a difference but it seems like it would. I’m running his Promethease report now.

By: Amanda R

Amanda R — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:25:37 +0000

Hi Everyone,

I ran a Promethease report through Snpedia and I have all the SNP’s listed by David. I also went into my 23 & Me report and verified their location. They are all homozygote except one (rs12571093 heterozygote). They are located in Chromosome 1, 4, 6, 9, 10, 17, 22, and 5.

Because I have them all I keep thinking I am doing something wrong. I gone over this three times! How could I have them all?

Thanks,
Amanda

By: Eric Halgren

Eric Halgren — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:42:53 +0000

I am heterozygous for the OOA alleles at 7 of the 42 SNPs, no read at one. So that makes 7/82 or 8.5%. Seems kinda low if these are the SNPs specfically chosen to reflect our Neandertal heritage.
I am 3/4 Swede and 1/4 mixed-English.