William S. Bush, assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, recently co-authored a manuscript with Tony Capra, assistant professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University, and collaborators in the eMERGE network on a publication in Science.
Their manuscript described the influence of Neanderthal ancestry on modern human traits. The researchers found how certain factors inherited from Neanderthals could lead to common diseases.
Find the full manuscript at science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6274/737.