Neanderthal Genomic DNA from Vindija, Croatia

A Neanderthal metagenomic library was constructed from DNA extracted from a 38,000-year old specimen from Vindija, Croatia. 65,250 bp of Neanderthal genome sequence were recovered from this library. By comparison to the complete chimpanzee and human genomes, it was calculated that the human and Neanderthal ancestral populations split about 370,000 years ago. The Neanderthal and human genomes are at least 99.5% identical. Neanderthal sequences reported in this study are present in GenBank with the Accession Numbers DX935178-DX936503 . Sequences deposited into the Trace Archive can be found using the Project data link.