A method for the temperature-controlled extraction of DNA from ancient bones

Contamination with microbial and other exogenous DNA poses a significant challenge in the generation of genome-wide sequence data from ancient skeletal remains. Here we describe a method for separating ancient DNA into multiple fractions during DNA extraction by sequential temperature-controlled rel...

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Published in:	BioTechniques
Main Authors:	Elena Essel, Petra Korlević, Matthias Meyer
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Taylor & Francis Group 2021-07-01
Subjects:	ancient DNA archaeological material contamination removal endogenous DNA sequential DNA extraction
Online Access:	https://www.future-science.com/doi/10.2144/btn-2021-0025

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