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Thursday, August 12, 2010

DNA Developments: The Genome of the Glacier Man Oetzi (Otzi) Has Been Sequenced

Michael Day reports in Science News at The Independent that Five millennia on, Iceman of Bolzano gives up DNA secrets, as Oetzi's complete genome has been sequenced. No further data is provided.

We know from a previous study that Oetzi's mtDNA is K1, a subcluster of mitochondrial Haplogroup K (mtDNA).

The full results of the new research will be announced in 2011.

See also

Jay Stone, BioNews.org.uk Otzi Iceman's DNA sequenced

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog Tyrolean Iceman had mtDNA haplogroup K1

and in Latvian
Sekvenēts pilnīgs 5300 gadus senā Alpu «ledus cilvēka» Otci genoms