Methodologies for Ancient DNA Extraction from Bones for Genomic Analysis: Approaches and Guidelines

The emergence and development of massive parallel sequencing (new generation sequencing) methods have opened up new prospects in the study of ancient organisms, including extinct ones. Numerous skeletal remains from archaeological and museum collections are often the only source of information on ancient species and populations. In this review, we discuss the features of human bone tissue and the advantages and disadvantages of bone material as a source of DNA for genomic analysis of ancient people. Here we present new methodological approaches to DNA extraction from ancient human skeletal remains and its preparation for large-scale parallel sequencing are presented, as well as prospects and directions for further research in a new interdisciplinary field, paleogenomics.