{"id":647198,"date":"2020-02-24T03:56:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T07:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647198"},"modified":"2020-02-24T03:56:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T07:56:52","slug":"anonymous-no-more-combining-genetics-with-genealogy-to-identify-the-dead-in-unmarked-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647198","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous no more: combining genetics with genealogy to identify the dead in unmarked graves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Quebec, gravestones did not come into common use until the second half of the 19th century, so historical cemeteries contain many unmarked graves. Inspired by colleagues at Barcelona&#8217;s Pompeu Fabra University, a team of researchers in genetics, archaeology and demography from three Quebec universities (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Chicoutimi and Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Trois-Rivi\u00e8res) conducted a study in which they combined genealogical information from BALSAC (a Quebec database that is the only one of its kind in the world) with genetic information from more than 960 modern Quebecers in order to access the genetic profile of Quebec&#8217;s historical population. The results, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, suggest the capabilities that this method may offer in the near future.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-02-anonymous-combining-genetics-genealogy-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Anonymous no more: combining genetics with genealogy to identify the dead in unmarked graves<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Quebec, gravestones did not come into common use until the second half of the 19th century, so historical cemeteries contain many unmarked graves. Inspired by colleagues at Barcelona&#8217;s Pompeu&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}