By amplifying the amelogenin gene sex can be determined for individuals that scientists are able to extract aDNA from. This is done because the X-chromosome has markers which are DXS6789 and DXS9898 while males only show one allele. This is important because we can now use this to check for a sampling bias among the anthropologists themselves by checking their sex determination with this technique. This can also be used for children and stillbirths since they are too young to use morphological techniques to sex them.
Potluck post 2/25/2020
Annelise Beer
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.10172
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