Tracking down human contamination in ancient human teeth

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1801-1807

  Sampietro, María Lourdes ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^b   Lao, Oscar ^c   Caramelli, David ^d   Lari, Martina ^d   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^a   Lalueza Fox, Carles ^e  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Contamination; Human; Postmortem damage; Teeth

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; WATER;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPAIN; TOOTH;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; PALEODONTOLOGY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TOOTH;

EID: 33748144626     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl047     Document Type: Article

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