Lithuania's Ancient DNA Lab

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DNA from across the ages can reveal migrations of Iron-Age people and genes that protected against Chernobyl radiation

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Ingrida Domarkien spearheads Lithuania 's first ancient DNA lab.

The lab is studying the remains of people in medieval mass graves in Poland .

It's also revealing insights into the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.

Studying ancient DNA can help us address medical challenges today , she says.

ID: "With fast-evolving technologies, we will be able to go deeper in the sequences, wider in the datasets" "My dream would be to reconstruct copy number variation, which are the huge chunks of [repeated] DNA," she says.

"In the grand finale, we would be integrating the whole data of the holobiome".

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