Temporal patterns of nucleotide misincorporations and DNA fragmentation in ancient DNA.

DNA that survives in museum specimens, bones and other tissues recovered by archaeologists is invariably fragmented and chemically modified. The extent to which such modifications accumulate over time is largely unknown but could potentially be used to differentiate between endogenous old DNA and pr...

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Main Authors: Susanna Sawyer, Johannes Krause, Katerina Guschanski, Vincent Savolainen, Svante Pääbo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3316601?pdf=render