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The MUC19 Gene: An Evolutionary History of Recurrent Introgression and Natural Selection
F. A. Villanea, D. Peede, E. J. Kaufman…·E. Huerta-Sanchez
The paper identifies a Denisovan-like MUC19 haplotype in Indigenous Americans and Neanderthals, showing it is under positive selection and has high copy numbers of a tandem repeat.