  Recent lattice-QCD results for the dressed-gluon propagator are used within
the quark Dyson-Schwinger equation to determine the gluon-quark vertex dressing
necessary to reproduce the lattice-QCD results for the dressed-quark
propagator. Both quenched and full QCD lattice simulations, for a range of low
quark current masses, are analyzed. The chiral extrapolation is made through
this continuum DSE form. Resulting chiral and physical pion observables are
investigated.
