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Making aDNA useful for kinship analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2021

Bradley E. Ensor
Bradley E. Ensor*
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SAC Department, Eastern Michigan University, USA (✉ bensor@emich.edu)
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Antiquity , Volume 95 , Issue 379 , February 2021 , pp. 241 - 243
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