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What did our ancestors look like?
Heritage Daily ^
| 1-14-2013
Posted on 01/14/2013 6:25:49 PM PST by Renfield
A new method of establishing hair and eye colour from modern forensic samples can also be used to identify details from ancient human remains, finds a new study published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Investigative Genetics.
The HIrisPlex DNA analysis system was able to reconstruct hair and eye colour from teeth up to 800 years old, including the Polish General Wladyslaw Sikorski (1881 to 1943) confirming his blue eyes and blond hair.
A team of researchers from Poland and the Netherlands, who recently developed the HIrisPlex system for forensic analysis, have now shown that this system is sufficiently robust to successfully work on older and more degraded samples from human remains such as teeth and bones. The system looks at 24 DNA polymorphisms (naturally occurring variations) which can be used to predict eye and hair colour.
Caption: A new method of establishing hair and eye color from modern forensic samples can also be used to identify details from ancient human remains, finds a new study published in BioMed Centrals open access journal Investigative Genetics.
Dr Wojciech Branicki, from the Institute of Forensic Research and Jagielonian University, Kraków, who led this study together with Prof Manfred Kayser, from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, explained, “This system can be used to solve historical controversies where colour photographs or other records are missing. HIrisPlex was able to confirm that General Wladyslaw Sikorski, who died in a plane crash in 1943, had the blue eyes and blond hair present in portraits painted years after his death. Some of our samples were from unknown inmates of a World War II prison. In these cases HIrisPlex helped to put physical features to the other DNA evidence.”
For medieval samples, where DNA is even more degraded, this system was still able to predict eye and hair colour (for the most degraded DNA samples eye colour alone), identifying one mysterious woman buried in the crypt of the Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec near Kraków, sometime during the 12th-14th centuries, as having dark blond/brown hair and brown eyes.
TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: cryptobiology; cryptozoology; genetics; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; phenotype
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posted on
01/14/2013 6:25:52 PM PST
by
Renfield
To: Renfield
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posted on
01/14/2013 6:31:09 PM PST
by
albie
To: Renfield
Bridgette Bardot and Robert Redford?
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posted on
01/14/2013 6:32:22 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Cruz said "conservatives trust Sarah Palin that if she says this guy is a conservative, that he is")
To: ansel12
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posted on
01/14/2013 6:34:25 PM PST
by
laweeks
To: Renfield
Living Fossil:
To: Renfield
Great great great great great great great great grandma...
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posted on
01/14/2013 6:43:55 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Renfield
It’s the spitting image of my cousin Mike right down to the four legs!
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posted on
01/14/2013 7:00:53 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Renfield
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posted on
01/14/2013 7:01:27 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Renfield
I have tracks....
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posted on
01/14/2013 7:07:26 PM PST
by
Quickgun
(I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
To: Vendome
Danny DeVito hit that?
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posted on
01/14/2013 7:15:25 PM PST
by
eldoradude
(Let's water the tree of liberty with THEIR blood...)
To: Vendome
A little bit of laser treatment will help with that “embarrassing, unwanted hair”
Uh...maybe we are going to need a bigger laser....
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posted on
01/14/2013 7:27:58 PM PST
by
left that other site
(Worry is the darkroom that develops negatives.)
To: eldoradude
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posted on
01/14/2013 7:28:27 PM PST
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Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: eldoradude
I thought that was Danny DeVito.
To: eldoradude
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posted on
01/14/2013 7:41:46 PM PST
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Renfield
Anybody who watched TV in the 60's knows.
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posted on
01/14/2013 8:28:18 PM PST
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
To: Renfield; martin_fierro; blam
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posted on
01/14/2013 8:32:48 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: Thrownatbirth
I knew in an instand that was Shad and Grunk.
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posted on
01/14/2013 8:33:57 PM PST
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higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: higgmeister
I see that I spelled it wrong. It’s Gronk.
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posted on
01/14/2013 8:35:18 PM PST
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higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: higgmeister
OK, from memory.
It's about time
It's about space.
It's about two men in the strangest place.
It's about two astronauts.
It's about their fate.
It's about as woman and her prehistoric mate.
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01/14/2013 8:38:54 PM PST
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: Renfield
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01/14/2013 8:43:20 PM PST
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randita
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