A molecular approach to the sexing of the triple burial at the upper paleolithic site of Dolní Vêstonice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Mittnik, Alissa ^a,b   Wang, Chuan Chao ^b,c   Svoboda, Jiří ^d,e   Krause, Johannes ^a,b  

^a Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIAL; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; PALEOLITHIC; PROBABILITY; SEX DETERMINATION; X CHROMOSOME; ARCHEOLOGY; BONE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KARYOTYPE; MALE; METABOLISM; SEX;

DNA;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE AND BONES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DNA; FEMALE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; KARYOTYPE; MALE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX;

EID: 84991476987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163019     Document Type: Article

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