When I sat down with him, he didn't perceive Maison Kayser as any threat at all.

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Payard is on the east side of Third Avenue, Maison Kayser on the west side.

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True, Maison Kayser makes excellent bread including one of the Upper East Side's, if not all of New York's, better baguettes.

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Despite being a chain, the Eric Kayser bakeries are praised for their range of superlative baguettes, with additions such as poppy seeds or sesame.

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Tools such as Hirisplex could be useful in those cases where the perpetrator is completely unknown to the authorities, said Prof Manfred Kayser, who led the study.

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"We identified 13 'DNA markers' from 11 genes that are informative to predict a person's hair colour, " said Professor Kayser, chair of the Department of Forensic Molecular Biology at Erasmus.

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So I wish Payard and Maison Kayser only well.

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Manfred Kayser says ancestry markers can - at best - trace an individual to a broad region: "Human migration history has produced no sharp genetic borders and no sharp appearance borders, " he explains.

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Pursuing that Barneys comparison (I don't know whether I made it clear that he considers his own shop Barneys and Maison Kayser Macy's, not vice versa), Mr. Payard has established a sort of self-service, cut out the middleman, ethos.

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But Leicester have been nothing if not dogged over the years and just before the break Benjamin Kayser bullocked his way up the middle, Julien Dupuy went blind and Jordan Crane and Ben Kay sent the pacy Croft over in the corner.

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