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On engagement with anthropology: A critical evaluation of skeletal and developmental abnormalities in the Atacama preterm baby and issues of forensic and bioarchaeological research ethics. Response to Bhattacharya et al. "Whole-genome sequencing of Atacama skeleton shows novel mutations linked with dysplasia" in Genome Research, 2018, 28: 423-431. Doi: 10.1101/gr.223693.117.
International journal of paleopathology - 1 Sept 2018
Halcrow Siân E, Killgrove Kristina, Robbins Schug Gwen, Knapp Michael, Huffer Damien, Arriaza Bernardo, Jungers William, Gunter Jennifer
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Here we evaluate Bhattacharya et al.'s (2018) recent paper "Whole-genome sequencing of Atacama skeleton shows novel mutations linked with dysplasia" published in Genome Research. In this short report, we examine the hypothesis that the so-called "Atacama skeleton" has skeletal abnormalities indicative of dysplasia, critique the validity of the interpretations of disease based on genomic analyses, and comment on...
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