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Stone Age "chewing gum" yields 5,700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome

2018-12-13

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We present a complete ancient human genome and oral microbiome sequenced from a piece of resinous "chewing gum" recovered from a Stone Age site on the island of Lolland, Denmark, and directly dated to 5,858-5,661 cal. BP (GrM-13305; 5,007+/-11). We sequenced the genome to an average depth-of-coverage of 2.3x and find that the individual who chewed the resin was female and genetically more closely related to wester...

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Literature Corpus work: 613edd05-4ae7-5676-bc3b-6b17ce5c586f
DOI: 10.1101/493882

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