Screening ancient tuberculosis with qPCR: challenges and opportunities

Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis

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Separating endogenous ancient DNA from modern day contamination in a Siberian Neandertal

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Out-of-Africa migration and Neolithic coexpansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with modern humans

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Single-stranded DNA library preparation for the sequencing of ancient or damaged DNA

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Metagenomic Analysis of Tuberculosis in a Mummy

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Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a Middle Pleistocene cave bear reconstructed from ultrashort DNA fragments

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Genome-Wide Comparison of Medieval and Modern Mycobacterium leprae

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Ancient DNA Damage

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After the bottleneck: Genome-wide diversification of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by mutation, recombination, and natural selection

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A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual

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mapDamage: testing for damage patterns in ancient DNA sequences

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A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

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Targeted enrichment of ancient pathogens yielding the pPCP1 plasmid of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

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A Complete mtDNA Genome of an Early Modern Human from Kostenki, Russia

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Tuberculosis on the north coast of Peru: skeletal and molecular paleopathology of late pre-Hispanic and postcontact mycobacterial disease

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A Bayesian Phylogenetic Method to Estimate Unknown Sequence Ages

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Multiplexed DNA Sequence Capture of Mitochondrial Genomes Using PCR Products

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A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

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Tuberculosis and leprosy in perspective

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A quantitative approach to detect and overcome PCR inhibition in ancient DNA extracts

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Hybrid selection of discrete genomic intervals on custom-designed microarrays for massively parallel sequencing

(2009) Emily Hodges et al.   Nature Protocols

Studying the effect of single mismatches in primer and probe binding regions on amplification curves and quantification in real-time PCR

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Direct evidence of extensive diversity of HIV-1 in Kinshasa by 1960

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PCR-amplification of GC-rich regions: 'slowdown PCR'

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