Sentences with phrase «first nuclear genome»
Researchers were sequencing mitochondrial DNA from aurochs remains (and would successfully sequence the first nuclear genome in 2015).
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An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.
Pääbo's group first gave the field a jolt in May 2010 by reporting a low - coverage sequence (1.3 copies on average) of the composite nuclear genome from three Neandertals.
Y - chromosome haplotypes were recovered by aligning reads against previously identified Y - chromosome contigs (12, 75), first against the contigs alone and then remapped against the full nuclear genome, including the Y - chromosome contigs, to control for repetitive regions.
We first used in - solution capture method to enrich the DNA library for human mitochondrial DNA fragments5, 23 to screen for samples with sufficient quality for nuclear genome SNP genotyping.