Minimally-invasive sampling of pars petrosa (os temporale) for ancient DNA extraction v1

• DOI: 10.17504/protocols.io.bdyvi7w6
• Publication Date: 2020-12-04T08:51:56Z
• Authors: Eleftheria Orfanou; Marie Himmel; Franziska Aron; Wolfgang Haak
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine

This protocol describes how to obtain bone powder from the pars petrosa of disarticulated ossis temporalis, specifically dense parts around cochlea, in a minimally-invasive way by drilling outside. The has been shown consistently yield high amounts aDNA (Pinhasi et al. 2015 PLoS One, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129102).