Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus

…, KW Alt, D Caramelli, V Dresely, M Farrell, AG Farrer… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Recent genomic data have revealed multiple interactions between Neanderthals and modern
humans 1 , but there is currently little genetic evidence regarding Neanderthal behaviour, …

Laboratory contamination over time during low‐biomass sample analysis

LS Weyrich, AG Farrer, R Eisenhofer… - Molecular ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Bacteria are not only ubiquitous on earth but can also be incredibly diverse within clean
laboratories and reagents. The presence of both living and dead bacteria in laboratory …

The skin microbiome: Associations between altered microbial communities and disease

LS Weyrich, S Dixit, AG Farrer… - Australasian journal …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A single square centimetre of the human skin can contain up to one billion microorganisms.
These diverse communities of bacteria, fungi, mites and viruses can provide protection …

Ancient dental calculus reveals oral microbiome shifts associated with lifestyle and disease in Great Britain

AS Gancz, AG Farrer, MP Nixon, S Wright… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The prevalence of chronic, non-communicable diseases has risen sharply in recent decades,
especially in industrialized countries. While several studies implicate the microbiome in …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of decontamination protocols when analyzing ancient DNA preserved in dental calculus

AG Farrer, SL Wright, E Skelly, R Eisenhofer… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
… In addition, we performed a G-test to explore differences in OTU abundance among the
different sample groups using the group_signficance.py script in QIIME and the Bonferroni …

Biological and cultural drivers of oral microbiota in Medieval and Post-Medieval London, UK

AG Farrer, J Bekvalac, R Redfern, N Gully, K Dobney… - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
A G-test test was used to identify specific species that contributed to the differences observed
in each metadata category with a cutoff of p = 0.05 for significance. To ensure statistical …

The relevance of ancient DNA to contemporary disease

A Cooper, LS Weyrich, AG Farrer - Pathology, 2015 - pathologyjournal.rcpa.edu.au
Disease prevalence and human health has been significantly impacted through time by
cultural, environmental, and dietary changes. While we now know that the human microbiome …

Ancient DNA studies of dental calculus

AG Farrer - 2017 - digital.library.adelaide.edu.au
Over the last 10 years, the human microbiota has been identified as a major force in human
health and disease. Microbiota are the bacterial communities that live on the internal and …

Modulating human sense of agency with non-invasive brain stimulation

N Khalighinejad, P Haggard - Cortex, 2015 - Elsevier
Farrer et al., 2003, Farrer et al., 2008, Farrer and Frith, 2002), we predicted that anodal
stimulation of putative AG … Importantly, such a result would identify a causal role for AG in sense of …

[CITATION][C] Biological and cultural drivers of oral microbiota in medieval and post-medieval London, UK. bioRxiv. 2018; 343889

AG Farrer, J Bekvalac, R Redfern - DOI