Bona fide colour: DNA prediction of human eye and hair colour from ancient and contemporary skeletal remains

Investigative Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Draus Barini, Jolanta ^a   Walsh, Susan ^b   Pośpiech, Ewelina ^c   Kupiec, Tomasz ^a   Głab, Henryk ^c   Branicki, Wojciech ^a,c   Kayser, Manfred ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Eye colour; Forensic DNA phenotyping; Hair colour; HIrisPlex; Human appearance; Skeletal remains; W adys aw Sikorski

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

AGED; ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BONE AGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; EYE COLOR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENOTYPE; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MIDDLE AGES; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SKELETON; TOOTH; WAR;

NEMOPHILA; PSEUDOMUGILIDAE;

EID: 84872702994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-2223-4-3     Document Type: Article

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