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On 7 Oct, 2015
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OCTOBER 2015: Erna Johannesdottir presents at BABAO Conference

EUROTAST Fellow Erna Johannesdottir presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the British Associate for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology September 2015 in Sheffield. Her presentation, African dental modification practices in the era of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade was presented with EUROTAST Research Supervisor, Kate Robson Brown. Title: African dental modification practices in the era of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade…

On 11 Dec, 2014
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DECEMBER 2014: Three New Research Papers by EUROTAST

First, Petr Triska and his advisor, Luisa Pereira, authored an article in Nature’s Scientific Reports on the differences in selection signatures between human populations. By investigating the diversity in 104 nuclear-coded mitochondrial proteins from a worldwide sample of 1,092 individuals, the study showed a significantly lower amount of pathogenic mutations in Europeans when compared with…