The genome of a European Neandertal allows more Neandertal DNA to be identified in present-day people

The high quality genome of a Neandertal from Croatia in southern Europe has been sequenced at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. This Neandertal is more closely related to the group of Neandertals that mixed with the ancestors of present-day non-Africans than the previously sequenced Neandertal from the Altai Mountains. This allowed the researchers to identify additional Neandertal DNA in the genomes of present-day people.