Meanings of neanderthal genes in English

This means he has more Neanderthal genes than most people.

Is there something in the biology of people outside Africa that is coming from those Neanderthal genes?

The German group has yet to investigate what purpose, if any, the Neanderthal genes play in modern humans.

Some Neanderthal genes are linked to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, Crohn's disease and cirrhosis of the liver.

And no one knew where the Basque Chimera had disappeared to, or if the child with Neanderthal genes still lived.

As a result, people of European and Asian descent carry Neanderthal genes in their DNA, but people of African descent don't.

Many of the Neanderthal genes that live on in people today are involved in making keratin, a protein used in skin, hair and nails.

Reich found that hardly any Neanderthal genes were expressed in modern men's testes, and that the X chromosome was almost completely devoid of Neanderthal DNA.

In a separate study published in Nature, David Reich at Harvard University looked for Neanderthal genes in the DNA of more than 1,000 living people.