Detection of breastfeeding and weaning in modern human infants with carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios

Fuller, B.T.; Fuller, J.L.; Harris, D.A.; Hedges, R.E.M.

doi:10.1002/ajpa.20249

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Detection of breastfeeding and weaning in modern human infants with carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios

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B.T. Fuller

J.L. Fuller

D.A. Harris

Abstract

Abstract Carbon ( 13 C/ 12 C) and nitrogen ( 15 N/ 14 N) stable isotope ratios were longitudinally measured in fingernail and hair samples from mother‐infant pairs where infants were exclusively breastfed (n = 5), breast‐ and formula‐fed (n = 2), or exclusively formula‐fed (n = 1) from birth. All ex...

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