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Unmentioned is the relic H. neanderthalensis admixture. Presumably it entered through a particular lineage, or some few, and has declined as a percentage of genetic content over time. It would be interesting to track those genes back through to their source lineages and to assess how they declined over time, or remained at a stable level.

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"Alleles on chromosome 17 which cause neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimers were prominent in Anatolian farming populations and possibly in the Yamnaya Steppe populations"

This doesn't seem correct:

"We also found that the ApoE4 effect allele is preferentially found on a WHG/EHG haplotypic background, suggesting it likely was brought to western Europe by early hunter-gatherers (Supplementary Note 4h)"

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