4000-year-old hair from the middle nile highlights unusual ancient dna degradation pattern and a potential source of early eastern africa pastoralists

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• who: Ke Wang from the Max Planck InstituteUniversity, Shanghai, China, have published the research work: 4000-year-old hair from the Middle Nile highlights unusual ancient DNA degradation pattern and a potential source of early eastern Africa pastoralists, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports
• what: The authors demonstrate the possibility of retrieving aDNA from ancient hair by reconstructing genomewide data from a 4000-year-old hair sample in Sudan.
• how: The authors used two tools to assess both the rate of spurious alignments and the rate of modern human contaminants.

 

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