 At this point, the bone fragment was referred to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, that had previously isolated and sequenced Denisovan DNA.The first analysis done at Max Planck was of her mitochondrial DNA, followed by nuclear DNA.The publication of their results in 2018 was the first direct evidence of interbreeding, and it was called a "landmark find […] that is helping shape our understanding of hominin interactions."