Publications by authors named "G Hotz"
The evolution of the human hand is a topic of great interest in paleoanthropology. As the hand can be involved in a vast array of activities, knowledge regarding how it was used by early hominins can yield crucial information on the factors driving biocultural evolution. Previous research on early hominin hands focused on the overall bone shape.
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- * A pilot study aimed to explore the feasibility of genetic analysis of blood spots from medical records to understand the development of goiter and assess genetic variations, while also considering dietary and environmental influences on the disease.
- * DNA analysis showed that the quality of samples varied significantly between imprints, highlighting the need for individual evaluation and suggesting that collecting larger samples could improve the effectiveness of genetic testing by addressing issues like DNA degradation and contamination.
Background: In 1975, the mummified body of a female has been found in the Franciscan church in Basel, Switzerland. Molecular and genealogic analyses unveiled her identity as Anna Catharina Bischoff (ACB), a member of the upper class of post-reformed Basel, who died at the age of 68 years, in 1787. The reason behind her death is still a mystery, especially that toxicological analyses revealed high levels of mercury, a common treatment against infections at that time, in different body organs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objective: There is evidence from previous studies that pregnancies and diseases are recorded in the tooth cementum. This study aims to assess the degree of concordance between signals based on irregular incremental lines (ILs) and reported pregnancies.
Material And Methods: 23 recent and 24 archaeological human teeth with known birth history were included in this investigation.
Synchrotron radiation-based tomography yields microanatomical features in human and animal tissues without physical slicing. Recent advances in instrumentation have made laboratory-based phase tomography feasible. We compared the performance of three cutting-edge laboratory systems benchmarked by synchrotron radiation-based tomography for three specimens.
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