Accurate sex identification of ancient human remains using DNA shotgun sequencing
✍ Scribed by Skoglund, Pontus; Storå, Jan; Götherström, Anders; Jakobsson, Mattias
- Book ID
- 120550239
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 675 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0305-4403
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