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Science 7 November 2008:
Vol. 322. no. 5903, p. 857
DOI: 10.1126/science.1158565
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Response to Comment on "Whole-Genome Shotgun Sequencing of Mitochondria from Ancient Hair Shafts"

M. Thomas P. Gilbert,1 Webb Miller,2 Stephan C. Schuster2*

Debruyne et al. challenge the findings of our study and imply that we argue that hair shafts are an overall superior source of ancient DNA than bone. However, the authors are misreading and misinterpreting the conclusions of our study; we claim nothing further than that hair shaft represents an excellent source material for the shotgun sequencing of mitochondrial DNA genomes.

1 Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
2 Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, Pennsylvania State University, 310 Wartik Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: scs{at}bx.psu.edu

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