Asians are relatives of extinct people

A study showed that the genes of an extinct strain exist in the bodies of Asian people.

Modern people in Asia are descendants of a race of people who have disappeared.

Mattias Jakobsson, a researcher at the Uppsala University's Center for Evolutionary Biology in Sweden, and colleagues analyzed DNA in a 40,000-year-old finger bone fragment discovered in the Alta Mountains of Siberia. Russia in 2008. The finger belongs to a group of people known by scientists as Denisovan , National Geographic said.

The team then compared the genetic map of finger bones with genetic maps of 50 communities and 270 individuals in Southeast Asia and southern China.

Results showed that people in southern China and Southeast Asia shared 1% of genes with Denisovans. That means the Denisovans have mated with the ancestors of modern humans in Asia.

David Reich, an expert at Harvard Medical School in the United States, also analyzed the gene of finger bones belonging to Denisovans. Back then he only discovered kinship relations between Denisovans and indigenous people in Australia and the Philippines.

In 2010 European scientists also analyzed DNA in the above finger bone and found people in Papua New Guinea and the Melanesian Islands related to the Denisovan race.

"Studies of the genetic makeup of the ancients show that our genetic origins are more complex and mixed than the scientific community still thinks," Reich commented.