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Matthew J. Collins
Researcher at McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Publications - 305
Citations - 18606
Matthew J. Collins is an academic researcher from McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ancient DNA & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 276 publications receiving 15824 citations. Previous affiliations of Matthew J. Collins include VU University Amsterdam & Leiden University.
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The survival of organic matter in bone: a review
Matthew J. Collins,Christina M. Nielsen-Marsh,Jennifer Hiller,Colin Smith,J. P. Roberts,Richard V. Prigodich,Tim J Wess,János Csapó,Andrew R. Millard,Gordon Turner-Walker +9 more
TL;DR: If bone is considered as a composite of collagen (protein) and bioapatite (mineral), then three pathways of diagenesis are identified: (1) chemical deterioration of the organic phase; (2) chemical deteriorated of the mineral phase; and (3) (micro) biological attack of the composite.
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The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils
Morten E. Allentoft,Morten E. Allentoft,Morten E. Allentoft,Matthew J. Collins,David Harker,James Haile,Charlotte L. Oskam,Marie L. Hale,Paula F. Campos,Paula F. Campos,José Alfredo Samaniego,M. Thomas P. Gilbert,M. Thomas P. Gilbert,Eske Willerslev,Guojie Zhang,R. Paul Scofield,Richard N. Holdaway,Michael Bunce +17 more
TL;DR: It is shown that nuclear DNA has degraded at least twice as fast as mtDNA, a baseline for predicting long-term DNA survival in bone, and considerable sample-to-sample variance in DNA preservation could not be accounted for by geologic age.
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The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana
Morten Rasmussen,Sarah L. Anzick,Michael R. Waters,Pontus Skoglund,Michael DeGiorgio,Michael DeGiorgio,Thomas W. Stafford,Thomas W. Stafford,Simon Rasmussen,Ida Moltke,Ida Moltke,Anders Albrechtsen,Shane M. Doyle,G. David Poznik,Valborg Gudmundsdottir,Rachita Yadav,Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas,V. Samuel Stockton White,Morten E. Allentoft,Omar E. Cornejo,Kristiina Tambets,Anders Eriksson,Anders Eriksson,Peter D. Heintzman,Monika Karmin,Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen,David J. Meltzer,Tracey Pierre,Jesper Stenderup,Lauri Saag,Vera Warmuth,Vera Warmuth,Margarida C. Lopes,Ripan S. Malhi,Søren Brunak,Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén,Ian Barnes,Ian Barnes,Matthew J. Collins,Ludovic Orlando,Francois Balloux,Andrea Manica,Ramneek Gupta,Mait Metspalu,Carlos Bustamante,Mattias Jakobsson,Rasmus Nielsen,Eske Willerslev +47 more
TL;DR: The genome sequence of a male infant recovered from the Anzick burial site in western Montana is sequenced and it is shown that the gene flow from the Siberian Upper Palaeolithic Mal’ta population into Native American ancestors is also shared by the AnZick-1 individual and thus happened before 12,600 years bp.
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Pathogens and host immunity in the ancient human oral cavity
Christina Warinner,João Domingos Rodrigues,Rounak Vyas,Christian Trachsel,Natallia Shved,Jonas Grossmann,Anita Radini,Y. Hancock,Raul Y. Tito,Sarah Fiddyment,Camilla Speller,Jessica Hendy,Sophy Charlton,Hans U. Luder,Domingo C. Salazar-García,Elisabeth Eppler,Roger Seiler,Lars Hestbjerg Hansen,José Alfredo Samaniego Castruita,Simon Barkow-Oesterreicher,Kai Yik Teoh,Christian D. Kelstrup,Jesper V. Olsen,Paolo Nanni,Toshihisa Kawai,Eske Willerslev,Christian von Mering,Cecil M. Lewis,Matthew J. Collins,M. Thomas P. Gilbert,Frank J Rühli,Enrico Cappellini +31 more
TL;DR: This work reports the first, to their knowledge, high-resolution taxonomic and protein functional characterization of the ancient oral microbiome and demonstrates that the oral cavity has long served as a reservoir for bacteria implicated in both local and systemic disease.
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Age estimation: the state of the art in relation to the specific demands of forensic practise.
Stefanie Ritz-Timme,Cristina Cattaneo,Matthew J. Collins,E. R. Waite,H. W. Schütz,H. J. Kaatsch,Helene Borrman +6 more
TL;DR: Here a biochemical method based on aspartic acid racemization in dentine provides the most accurate estimates of age, followed by special morphological dental and skeletal methods.