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SUBMITTER: Rasmussen M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3951495 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature 20100201 7282
We report here the genome sequence of an ancient human. Obtained from approximately 4,000-year-old permafrost-preserved hair, the genome represents a male individual from the first known culture to settle in Greenland. Sequenced to an average depth of 20x, we recover 79% of the diploid genome, an amount close to the practical limit of current sequencing technologies. We identify 353,151 high-confidence single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), of which 6.8% have not been reported previously. We es ...[more]