Genetic identification of putative remains of the famous astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 30, 2009, Pages 12279-12282

  Bogdanowicz, Wiesław ^a   Allen, Marie ^b   Branicki, Wojciech ^c   Lembring, Maria ^b   Gajewska, Marta ^a   Kupiec, Tomasz ^c  

^a MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC RESEARCH   (Poland)

Author keywords

Eye color marker; Hairs; Human remains; Identification; Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; AUSTRIA; AUTOSOME; CLERGY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DENMARK; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMUR; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HAIR; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLAR TOOTH; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKELETON; SWEDEN; TOOTH; Y CHROMOSOME;

ASTRONAUTS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EXHUMATION; FAMOUS PERSONS; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 68149139674     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901848106     Document Type: Article

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