GenomicsGenome biologyPeer-reviewed
A seventeenth-century Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome supports a Neolithic emergence of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Susanna J. Sabin, Alexander Herbig, Åshild J. Vågene…·Kirsten I. Bos
The paper analyzes a 17th-century Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome to estimate the origin of the MTBC, finding a Neolithic emergence around 3683 years before present.
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