Genetic analyses from ancient DNA

Primer-Directed Enzymatic Amplification of DNA with a Thermostable DNA Polymerase

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Enzymatic Amplification of β-Globin Genomic Sequences and Restriction Site Analysis for Diagnosis of Sickle Cell Anemia

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DNA Repair and Mutagenesis

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Instability and decay of the primary structure of DNA

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Rate of depurination of native deoxyribonucleic acid

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Endosymbiotic gene transfer: organelle genomes forge eukaryotic chromosomes

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A single domestication for maize shown by multilocus microsatellite genotyping

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Neandertal DNA sequences and the origin of modern humans.

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Ancient DNA: Do It Right or Not at All

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Mitochondrial pseudogenes: evolution's misplaced witnesses

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Multiple and Ancient Origins of the Domestic Dog

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Ancient DNA: extraction, characterization, molecular cloning, and enzymatic amplification.

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Genetic and Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Modern Humans

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Genetic Evidence for an East Asian Origin of Domestic Dogs

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Isolation of a 250 million-year-old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal

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The Value of Museum Collections for Research and Society

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DNA sequences from the quagga, an extinct member of the horse family

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Ancient DNA

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The limits of selection during maize domestication

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Diverse Plant and Animal Genetic Records from Holocene and Pleistocene Sediments

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DNA sequences from multiple amplifications reveal artifacts induced by cytosine deamination in ancient DNA

Hofreiter, M. (2001) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/29.23.4793 · Cited by 684 · see citing works

Molecular cloning of Ancient Egyptian mummy DNA

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Revival and identification of bacterial spores in 25- to 40-million-year-old Dominican amber

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Genetic Evidence for Near-Eastern Origins of European Cattle

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Origin and evolution of the 1918 “Spanish” influenza virus hemagglutinin gene

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Molecular analysis of Neanderthal DNA from the northern Caucasus

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Modern human origins: progress and prospects

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Widespread Origins of Domestic Horse Lineages

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DNA damage promotes jumping between templates during enzymatic amplification.

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Molecular Coproscopy: Dung and Diet of the Extinct Ground Sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis

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Quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis of DNA from noninvasive samples for accurate microsatellite genotyping of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)

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Facts from feces revisited

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An agent cleaving glucose-derived protein crosslinks in vitro and in vivo

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Ancient DNA Evidence for Old World Origin of New World Dogs

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The earliest archaeological maize ( Zea mays L.) from highland Mexico: New accelerator mass spectrometry dates and their implications

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Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution

Cooper, A., Lalueza‐Fox, C., Anderson, S., Rambaut, A., Austin, J. J., & Ward, R. H. (2001) · Nature · doi:10.1038/35055536 · Cited by 438 · see citing works

No Evidence of Neandertal mtDNA Contribution to Early Modern Humans

Serre, D., Langaney, A., Chech, M., Teschler‐Nicola, M., Paunović, M., Mennecier, P., Hofreiter, M., Possnert, G., & Pääbo, S. (2004) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020057 · Cited by 437 · see citing works

Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in a pre-Columbian Peruvian mummy.

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DNA Damage and DNA Sequence Retrieval from Ancient Tissues

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Dynamics of Pleistocene Population Extinctions in Beringian Brown Bears

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Amino Acid Racemization and the Preservation of Ancient DNA

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The early Upper Paleolithic human skeleton from the Abrigo do Lagar Velho (Portugal) and modern human emergence in Iberia

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Characterisation of microbial attack on archaeological bone

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Excrement analysis by PCR

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Detection of 400-year-old Yersinia pestis DNA in human dental pulp: An approach to the diagnosis of ancient septicemia

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Evidence for a genetic discontinuity between Neandertals and 24,000-year-old anatomically modern Europeans

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Chloroplast DNA sequence from a Miocene Magnolia species

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A view of Neandertal genetic diversity

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Genetic diversity and selection in the maize starch pathway

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Molecular identification by “suicide PCR” of Yersinia pestis as the agent of Medieval Black Death

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The retrieval of ancient human DNA sequences.

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Early Allelic Selection in Maize as Revealed by Ancient DNA

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Paternity and relatedness in wild chimpanzee communities

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DNA sequence of the mitochondrial hypervariable region II from the Neandertal type specimen

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DNA Sequence from Cretaceous Period Bone Fragments

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Population genetics of Ice Age brown bears

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Infidelity of DNA synthesis associated with bypass of apurinic sites.

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Ancient DNA: Methodological challenges

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mtDNA Analysis of a Prehistoric Oneota Population: Implications for the Peopling of the New World

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Unreliable mtDNA data due to nuclear insertions: a cautionary tale from analysis of humans and other great apes

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Molecular preservation

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Isolation of nucleic acids and cultures from fossil ice and permafrost

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DNA Sequences from a Fossil Termite in Oligo-Miocene Amber and their Phylogenetic Implications

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Rates of Evolution in Ancient DNA from Adelie Penguins

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Amplification and sequencing of DNA from a 120–135-million-year-old weevil

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The thermal history of human fossils and the likelihood of successful DNA amplification

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Estimation of height from the length of long bones in a Portuguese adult population

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Molecular Genetic Analyses of the Tyrolean Ice Man

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Characterization of Genetic Miscoding Lesions Caused by Postmortem Damage

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Independent origins of New Zealand moas and kiwis.

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Distribution Patterns of Postmortem Damage in Human Mitochondrial DNA

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DNA phylogeny of the extinct marsupial wolf

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Long-term persistence of bacterial DNA

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Heat-induced depyrimidination of deoxyribonucleic acid in neutral solution

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Modern Human Ancestry at the Peripheries: A Test of the Replacement Theory

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Mitochondrial DNA sequences in ancient Australians: Implications for modern human origins

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The Neandertal type site revisited: Interdisciplinary investigations of skeletal remains from the Neander Valley, Germany

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A multiple-tubes approach for accurate genotyping of very small DNA samples by using PCR: statistical considerations.

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A molecular analysis of ground sloth diet through the last glaciation

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Grandmother hypothesis and primate life histories

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Genetic Affinities of the Andaman Islanders, a Vanishing Human Population

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Spatial and temporal continuity of kangaroo rat populations shown by sequencing mitochondrial DNA from museum specimens

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AMPLIFYING ANCIENT DNA

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On the Probability of Neanderthal Ancestry

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Ancient DNA from a pre‐Columbian Amerindian population

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Polymerase chain reaction reveals cloning artefacts

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Detecting Dinosaur DNA

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Molecular analysis of skeletal tuberculosis in an ancient Egyptian population

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Statistical Evidence for Miscoding Lesions in Ancient DNA Templates

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Not just old but old and cold?

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Authenticating DNA Extracted From Ancient Skeletal Remains

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