In addition, the parasite surface protein antigen MSP1 allele was successfully genotyped in three of six malaria-positive mummies (50%) (Figure 1b- here 1564- &Table 1). More specifically, DNA extracts from the positive AMA1 samples 1554, 1564 and 1622 showed amplification with K1 allele-specific primers whereas RO33 and MAD20 failed to amplify any of the 16 mummies tested (Table 1). The gene discussed is KRT1; the disease is malaria.