In 1974, Park County found John Doe’s remains in a mountainous region outside of Grant, Colorado.
Read the recent press release from the DNA Doe Project describing the many efforts taken to identify Anthony John Armbrust, Jr.
At Astrea, we used 150 mg of bone powder for the DNA extraction. We generated SRSLY NGS libraries and sequenced on an Illumina MiSeq for QC. We determined the human DNA content was approximately 50% - a GREAT candidate for generating a whole-genome SNP profile and for genetic genealogy.