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‘Viking disease’ hand disorder may come from Neanderthal genes
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‘Viking disease’ hand disorder may come from Neanderthal genes

by Oxford University Press A ring finger locked in a bent position as seen in Dupuytren’s disease, colloquially known as the “Viking disease.” Credit: Hugo Zeberg/ Molecular Biology and Evolution A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution shows that a condition known as Dupuytren’s disease is partly of Neanderthal origin. Researchers have long known that the disease was much...