Medieval skeletons help reveal genetic causes of bone tumors – Medievalists.net
Two men buried in a medieval cemetery in Ireland suffered from a genetic condition called multiple osteochondromas, which causes benign bone tumors. One of the disease mutations is a new discovery, so this is the first time such insights have been unlocked from ancient genomic data. In 2003, a cemetery was discovered in Ballyhanna, which …
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