▪ Abstract About 20 years ago, DNA sequences were separately described from the quagga
(a type of zebra) and an ancient Egyptian individual. What made these DNA sequences …

DNA that has been recovered from archaeological and palaeontological remains makes it
possible to go back in time and study the genetic relationships of extinct organisms to their …

Molecular evolution is a historic process through which genes accumulate changes due to
stochastic events as well as selective processes. Students of molecular evolution suffer from …

A recent genetic association study 1 identified a gene cluster on chromosome 3 as a risk locus
for respiratory failure after infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (…

DNA was extracted from the Neandertal-type specimen found in 1856 in western Germany.
By sequencing clones from short overlapping PCR products, a hitherto unknown …

Comparisons of DNA sequences between Neandertals and present-day humans have shown
that Neandertals share more genetic variants with non-Africans than with Africans. This …

We present a high-quality genome sequence of a Neanderthal woman from Siberia. We
show that her parents were related at the level of half-siblings and that mating among close …

Neandertals, the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans, lived in large parts of
Europe and western Asia before disappearing 30,000 years ago. We present a draft …

Background To utilize the power of high-throughput sequencers, target enrichment methods
have been developed. The majority of these require reagents and equipment that are only …

Artificial mummification was practised in Egypt from ∼ 2600 BC until the fourth century AD.
Because of the dry Egyptian climate, however, there are also many natural mummies …