Ratio of mitochondrial to nuclear DNA affects contamination estimates in ancient DNA analysis.

Sci Rep · 2018 · PMC6145933 · PMID 30232341

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No such trend is detectable in our data for petrous bones (P2, P3) and teeth (T3), and only a weak trend in other bones (B2).

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Petrous bones had significantly lower mt/nc ratios than teeth and showed a trend towards lower mt/nc ratios than other bone samples, while teeth and other bones showed similarly high ratios (Tukey HSD post hoc tests as indicated in Fig. 2 ).

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