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Iceland

This island nation is interesting for many reasons, but among the most central for human geneticists due to a history of exceptional genealogical records and investment in genomics.

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An enormous sample sheds light on the Denisovan ancestry of people in Iceland

Laurent Skov and coworkers have measured the very small amount of DNA shared within the Iceland population from Denisovan ancestry and they discuss several scenarios for how it may have gotten there.

An Iceland landscape with Northern Lights in the sky reflected in a lake