![094142200_1521789752-180322095103-001-atacama-mummy-exlarge-169.jpg](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmWC9BrAF8xEeEFhu3uTdq828XfSF1NDvzvvcbk5eNnNce) ---------- **Santiago** - A skeleton mummy found in the Atacama Desert, Chile, 15 years ago, confuses a number of parties. Many say, it is an alien skeleton.

Height is only 15 cm. But the original estimate of the mummy is not the same as the bone age of a child aged 6 to 8 years.

Quoted from CNN, Friday (23/3/2018), the bones of the skull is long and long, small eye sockets, and the lack of number of ribs to make the mystery is increasingly becoming.

A number of speculations circulating that the framework is a property of primates that have never been identified. Some others say the skeleton belongs to an alien.

However, a study based on a five-year genomic analysis reveals who the framework nicknamed 'Ata' is.

Ata turned out to be a human, who has bone mutation disease.

The researchers believe, the findings they published in the journal Genome Research, can help diagnose genetically-based cases of mutation. ------------- **Discovery of Ata** ![090640600_1490267780-skull_iStock.jpg](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmQj9dxoWfSFgYs3oaU6Q4BHzcMh3kYXAEyjQWrqxv1Jei) Ata was discovered in 2003 in the mining town of La Noria, the Atacama Desert region. Though originally presumed to be an early human, analysis in 2012 shows that the skeleton is only 40 years old.

"I know about this through a friend who is interested in extraterrestrial life," says ray Nolan, Professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University.

Nolan is interested in learning about Ata for a number of reasons. According to him, it could be a mysterious skeleton that is a species of primates that have not been known before or a human - although there are some who say that Ata is an alien.

DNA analysis also shows that Ata is human, although initially difficult to prove the 'identity' of the frame.

---------------- **The Causes of Weirdness** ![082640000_1510742730-Peneliti-Laboratorium2.jpg](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmPzwd19BcgDg6cHE2S5fSDUcJfgG9gV3h2PNdPC6ioyuZ) The researchers also find out what causes the small framework of Ata and a number of oddities that existed. Apparently, Ata had mutations in seven genes. It makes her dwarfism.

"There are a number of mutations in many genes, including genes that produce collagen (in bones and hair), joints, ribs, and arteries," said Dr Atul Butte, senior author of the study.

Although mutations found within the gene are known to cause bone disease, some have not been found to be associated with growth disorders or development.

"That's rare," Butte said. "To our knowledge, nobody has ever explained all these symptoms to the previous person, and changes in DNA, or mutations, reflect this."

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