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mspeir
  Thu Dec 18 16:41:37 2025 -0800
adding announcement for ancient hominids tracks, refs #36586

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+<h2>Dec. 15, 2025 &nbsp;&nbsp; New gnomAD Missense Deleteriousness Prediction by Constraint (MPC) track for hg19</h2>
+<p>
+We are happy to announce the release of the
+<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&position=default&g=ancient"
+        target="_blank">Ancient Hominids track</a>
+featuring data from Archaic Sequence Hub (ArcSeqHub). This track shows variants
+identified by ArcSeqHub's remapping of high-quality Altai Neanderthal and
+Denisovan genomes onto the hg38/GRCh38 genome. Variants are divided into two subtracks,
+one for Denisovian variants and another for Neanderthal variants.
+UCSC has removed those positions from the VCF without an alternate allele to show only
+variants that are present in the ancient genomes.</p>
+<div class="text-center">
+<img src="/images/newsArchImages/ancientHominids.png" width='80%'></a>
+</div>
+<p>
+We would like to thank the <a href="http://www.arcseqhub.com/plot/-1/"
+target="_blank">ArcSeqHub</a> authors for making the data available.
+We would also like to thank Maximilian Haeussler and Matthew Speir for the
+creation and release of this track.</p>
+
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