Post mortem DNA degradation of human tissue experimentally mummified in salt

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Shved, Natallia ^a   Haas, Cordula ^a   Papageorgopoulou, Christina ^a,b   Akguel, Guelfirde ^a   Paulsen, Katja ^a   Bouwman, Abigail ^a   Warinner, Christina ^a,c   Rühli, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; DEHYDRATION; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA PRESERVATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE TISSUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; PRESERVATION; SALT MUMMIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SKIN; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TISSUE DEGENERATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; ADULT; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUMMIES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 84908419662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110753     Document Type: Article

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