Ancestry and pathology in King Tutankhamun's family

JAMA

Volumn 303, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 638-647

  Hawass, Zahi ^a   Gad, Yehia Z ^b,c   Ismail, Somaia ^b,c   Khairat, Rabab ^c,d   Fathalla, Dina ^c   Hasan, Naglaa ^b,c   Ahmed, Amal ^b,c   Elleithy, Hisham ^a   Ball, Markus ^d   Gaballah, Fawzi ^e   Wasef, Sally ^e   Fateen, Mohamed ^e   Amer, Hany ^b   Gostner, Paul ^f   Selim, Ashraf ^e   Zink, Albert ^g   Pusch, Carsten M ^d  

^a Supreme Council of Antiquities   (Egypt)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^c Ministry of Antiquities   (Egypt)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^f CENTRAL HOSPITAL OF BOLZANO   (Italy)

^g INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1;

ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EGYPT; FEMININITY; GENE; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GYNECOMASTIA; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; KOHLER DISEASE II; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MARFAN SYNDROME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SUBTELOMERIC VARIABLE OPEN READING FRAME GENE; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

EID: 77149166035     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.121     Document Type: Article

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