Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequencing of a Burial from a Romano–Christian Cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt: Preliminary Indications

@inproceedings{Molto2017CompleteMG,
  title={Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequencing of a Burial from a Romano–Christian Cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt: Preliminary Indications},
  author={J. Eldon Molto and Odile Loreille and Elizabeth K Mallott and Ripan S Malhi and Spence Fast and Jennifer Daniels-Higginbotham and Charla Marshall and Ryan Parr},
  booktitle={Genes},
  year={2017}
}

• J. Eldon Molto, Odile Loreille, +5 authors Ryan Parr
• Published in Genes 2017
• DOI:10.3390/genes8100262

The curse of ancient Egyptian DNA was lifted by a recent study which sequenced the mitochondrial genomes (mtGenome) of 90 ancient Egyptians from the archaeological site of Abusir el-Meleq. Surprisingly, these ancient inhabitants were more closely related to those from the Near East than to contemporary Egyptians. It has been accepted that the timeless highway of the Nile River seeded Egypt with African genetic influence, well before pre-Dynastic times. Here we report on the successful recovery… CONTINUE READING

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