A 28,000 years old cro-magnon mtDNA sequence differs from all potentially contaminating modern sequences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Caramelli, David ^a   Milani, Lucio ^a   Vai, Stefania ^a,b   Modi, Alessandra ^a   Pecchioli, Elena ^c   Girardi, Matteo ^c   Pilli, Elena ^a   Lari, Martina ^a   Lippi, Barbara ^d   Ronchitelli, Annamaria ^e   Mallegni, Francesco ^d   Casoli, Antonella ^f   Bertorelle, Giorgio ^b   Barbujani, Guido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c CENTRO DI ECOLOGIA ALPINA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BONE AGE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; FOSSIL HUMAN; GENEALOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ITALY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOMINID; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEONTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; ITALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PALEONTOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 49949089716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002700     Document Type: Article

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