Table 1.
Estimates of human DNA contamination in the DNA sequences produced. Numbers in bold indicate summary contamination estimates over all Vindija data.
| mtDNA contamination |
Y chromosomal contamination |
Neandertal diversity (1/2) plus contamination* |
Nuclear ML contamination |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human | Neandertal | Percent | 95% C.I. | Observed | Expected | Percent | 95% C.I. | Percent | Upper 95% C.I. | Percent (95% C.I.) |
|
| Vi33.16 | 56 | 20,456 | 0.27 | 0.21–0.35 | 4 | 255 | 1.57 | 0.43–3.97 | 1.4 | 2.2 | n/a |
| Vi33.25 | 7 | 1,691 | 0.41 | 0.17–0.85 | 0 | 201 | 0.0 | 0.00–1.82 | 1.0 | 1.7 | n/a |
| Vi33.26 | 10 | 4,810 | 0.21 | 0.10–0.38 | 0 | 210 | 0.0 | 0.00–1.74 | 1.1 | 1.9 | n/a |
| All data | 73 | 26,957 | 0.27 | 0.21–0.34 | 4 | 666 | 0.60 | 0.16–1.53 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 0.7 (0.6–0.8) |
*
Assuming similar extents of contamination in the three bones and that individual heterozygosity and population nucleotide diversity is the same for this class of sites.