New insights into the Tyrolean Iceman's origin and phenotype as inferred by whole-genome sequencing

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Keller, Andreas ^a,b   Graefen, Angela ^c   Ball, Markus ^d   Matzas, Mark ^e   Boisguerin, Valesca ^e   Maixner, Frank ^c   Leidinger, Petra ^a   Backes, Christina ^a   Khairat, Rabab ^d   Forster, Michael ^f   Stade, Björn ^f   Franke, Andre ^f   Mayer, Jens ^a   Spangler, Jessica ^g   McLaughlin, Stephen ^g   Shah, Minita ^g   Lee, Clarence ^g   Harkins, Timothy T ^g   Sartori, Alexander ^g   Moreno Estrada, Andres ^h   Henn, Brenna ^h   Sikora, Martin ^h   Semino, Ornella ⁱ   Chiaroni, Jacques ^j   Rootsi, Siiri ^k   Myres, Natalie M ^l   Cabrera, Vicente M ^m   Underhill, Peter A ^h   Bustamante, Carlos D ^h   Vigl, Eduard Egarter ⁿ   Samadelli, Marco ^c   Cipollini, Giovanna ^c   Haas, Jan ^o   Katus, Hugo ^o   O'Connor, Brian D ^p,q   Carlson, Marc R J ^r   Meder, Benjamin ^o   Blin, Nikolaus ^d,s   Meese, Eckart ^a   Pusch, Carsten M ^d   Zink, Albert ^c   more..

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e Febit Biomed Gmbh   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^g Life Technologies   (United States)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^j CNRS   (France)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^l Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation   (United States)

^m UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

ⁿ CENTRAL HOSPITAL OF BOLZANO   (Italy)

^o UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^p ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

^q Nimbus Informatics LLC   (United States)

^r Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^s WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP O; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DEAMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ETHNIC GROUP; EYE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; LYME DISEASE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; X CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN GENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEONTOLOGY; PALEOPATHOLOGY;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MITOCHONDRIA; MUMMIES; PALEONTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84863230079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1701     Document Type: Article

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