Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti,bigfoot and other anomalous primates |
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| Authors: | Bryan C Sykes Rhettman A Mullis Christophe Hagenmuller Terry W Melton Michel Sartori |
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| Institution: | 1Institute of Human Genetics, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6UD, UK;2PO Box 40143, Bellevue, WA 98005, USA;3NaturAlpes, Annecy-Le-Vieux 74940, France;4Mitotyping Technologies, 2565 Park Center Boulevard, State College, PA 16801, USA;5Museum of Zoology, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne 1014, Switzerland;6Museum of Zoology and Grindel Biocentre, Hamburg 20146, Germany |
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| Abstract: | In the first ever systematic genetic survey, we have used rigorous decontamination followed by mitochondrial 12S RNA sequencing to identify the species origin of 30 hair samples attributed to anomalous primates. Two Himalayan samples, one from Ladakh, India, the other from Bhutan, had their closest genetic affinity with a Palaeolithic polar bear, Ursus maritimus. Otherwise the hairs were from a range of known extant mammals. |
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| Keywords: | yeti almasty bigfoot sasquatch mitochondrial DNA |
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