Between 2% and 4% of the genetic blueprint of present-day non-Africans came from Neanderthals, it is now believed. Gene types that influence disease in people today were picked up through interbreeding with Neanderthals, a major study in Nature Journal suggests. Click here to read more in the science section of BBC News.
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Neanderthals gave us disease genes
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