Scientists have recreated the faces of three ancient Egyptian men using DNA which is around 2,500 years old.
The mummies came from an ancient Nile community, known as the Abusir el-Meleq. The team noted that their ancestry more closely matched modern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern individuals, rather than Egyptians.
Raw data was obtained from the three ancient Egyptian mummies, available in the European Nucleotide Archive , before they were sequenced and"aligned to the human reference genome." Enzymatic damage repair was performed on each sample. The face of three ancient Egyptian mummies have been brought to life by Parabon NanoLabs, Inc. using DNA that's more than 2,000 years old.Following the"imputation" stage, Parabon applied its"Snapshot DNA Phenotyping pipeline" to theSnapshot, designed to cope with missing data in challenging forensic samples, then"predicted each mummy's ancestry, pigmentation, and face morphology.
"Just like in Parabon's law enforcement casework, these techniques are revolutionizing ancient DNA analysis because they operate on fragmented DNA and have been shown to be sensitive down to only 10 picograms of DNA."
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