Palaeopathology and genes: Investigating the genetics of infectious diseases in excavated human skeletal remains and mummies from past populations

Gene

Volumn 528, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-40

  Anastasiou, Evilena ^a   Mitchell, Piers D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancient disease; Ancient DNA; Mummies; Palaeomicrobiology; Palaeoparasitology; Palaeopathology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENTEROBIASIS; FASCIOLIASIS; GENETICS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPROSY; LOUSE; MALARIA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; SYPHILIS; TRENCH FEVER; TRICHURIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; TYPHUS; WART VIRUS;

ADNA; ANCIENT DISEASE; ANCIENT DNA; HIV; HPV; HTLV-1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS; HUMAN T-CELL LYMPHOTROPHIC VIRUS TYPE I; MINIMUM NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS; MNI; MUMMIES; PALAEOMICROBIOLOGY; PALAEOPARASITOLOGY; PALAEOPATHOLOGY; PCR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE ELEMENTS; RLEP; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS; SNPS; TB; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DNA; FOSSILS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MUMMIES; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PARASITIC DISEASES; VIRUS DISEASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS; NEMATODA; PHTHIRAPTERA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 84882635016     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.06.017     Document Type: Article

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