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Benjamin Peter

@benmpeter.bsky.social

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Population Geneticist, University of Rochester (now) and MPI-EVA (still).

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Benjamin Peter @benmpeter.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

If you need more exciting news about Denisovans, check out our paper on Denisovan ancestry in modern humans through time, out today in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...! #Denisovan #ancientDNA

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An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry

Yang et al. study Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day humans. In contrast to other East Asians, genomic comparisons suggest that the Jomon derived most of their ancestry from a deep lineage…

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Benjamin Peter @benmpeter.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The second paper is a systematic survey of Neandertal ancestry through time; a joint effort with @moorjanipriya.bsky.social ya.bsky.social’s lab at UC Berkeley, co-led by @leonardoiasi.bsky.social and Manjusha Chintalapati. Leo has a great summary of our main findings here:

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Benjamin Peter @benmpeter.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The first paper, lead by @arevsumer.bsky.social, Kay Prüfer and Johannes Krause, describes some amazing new genomes from Ranis and Zlaty Kun. See Arev’s write-up here:

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Benjamin Peter @benmpeter.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Today is a very big day for our research group, with two of my students, @leonardoiasi.bsky.social and @arevsumer.bsky.social publishing papers on the same day! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Neanderthals #gene-flow

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Neanderthal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans

Gene flow from Neanderthals has shaped genetic and phenotypic variation in modern humans. We generated a catalog of Neanderthal ancestry segments in more than 300 genomes spanning the past 50,000 year...

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