The Identification of a 1916 Irish Rebel: New Approach for Estimating Relatedness From Low Coverage Homozygous Genomes
Daniel Fernandes, Kendra A. Sirak, Mario Novak, John A. Finarelli, John Byrne, Edward Connolly, Jeanette E. L. Carlsson, Edmondo Ferretti, Ron Pinhasi, Jens Carlsson
The paper identifies Thomas Kent's remains using a forced homozygote approach to estimate relatedness from degraded DNA, confirming his identity through simulated data.
Scientific Reports · Jan 30, 2017Peer-reviewedBioinformatics