Neanderthal gene could be making millions of people more sensitive to pain, a new study claims. According to the research, millions of people have the rare gene as remnants of Neanderthal ancestry can still be found around the world.Humans who have inherited the "nerve-altering" mutation are likely to experience more pain.Current Biology published a study this week revealing: "Neanderthals had a biological predisposition to a heightened sense of pain." Neanderthal genomes are being studied in a bid to understand mutations that have evolved after their lineage split from humans.However, as there are only a few accessible genomes, the research has proved challenging.Despite the difficulty, Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for.
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