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Genotype of a historic strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Nov 2012
Bouwman Abigail S, Kennedy Sandra L, Müller Romy, Stephens Richard H, Holst Malin, Caffell Anwen C, Roberts Charlotte A, Brown Terence A
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The use of ancient DNA in paleopathological studies of tuberculosis has largely been restricted to confirmation of disease identifications made by skeletal analysis; few attempts at obtaining genotype data from archaeological samples have been made because of the need to perform different PCRs for each genetic locus being studied in an ancient DNA extract. We used a next generation sequencing approach involving...
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