{"id":279578,"date":"2017-02-23T13:43:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/02\/170223124316.htm"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:43:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T17:43:16","slug":"neanderthal-dna-contributes-to-human-gene-expression-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=279578","title":{"rendered":"Neanderthal DNA contributes to human gene expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last Neanderthal died 40,000 years ago, but much of their genome lives on, in bits and pieces, through modern humans. The impact of Neanderthals&#8217; genetic contribution has been uncertain. Researchers now report evidence that Neanderthal DNA sequences still influence how genes are turned on or off in modern humans. Neanderthal genes&#8217; effects on gene expression likely contribute to traits such as height and susceptibility to schizophrenia or lupus, the researchers found. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last Neanderthal died 40,000 years ago, but much of their genome lives on, in bits and pieces, through modern humans. The impact of Neanderthals&#8217; genetic contribution has been uncertain. Researchers now report evidence that Neanderthal DNA sequence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279579,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279578\/revisions\/279579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}