Introgressed mitochondrial fragments from archaic hominins alter nuclear genome function in modern humans.

Notably, we found the rate of overlap with Neanderthal introgressed segments to be highly significant ( P < 0.0002, permutation test) ( Fig. 2B ), supporting the hypothesis that certain NUMTs were introduced into the modern human genome via archaic admixture rather than by chance.

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