Category Archives: Ötzi the Iceman

Well, the paper is finally out, New insights into the Tyrolean Iceman’s origin and phenotype as inferred by whole-genome sequencing. In case you don’t know, Ötzi the Iceman died 5,300 years ago in the alpine region bordering Austria and Italy. His seems to have been killed. And due to various coincidences his body was also […]

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Dienekes points me to the fact that Ewen Callaway has the dirt on what’s going on with Ötzi: To get a better grip on his ancestry and predisposition to disease, Albert Zink, head of the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Bolzano, and his team sequenced Ötzi’s 3 billion base pair nuclear genome from […]

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The genome of Ötzi the Iceman is floating around somewhere, but for now we only have to go on what leaks out via the media. From National Geographic, Iceman Autopsy: The genetic results add both information and intrigue. From his genes, we now know that the Iceman had brown hair and brown eyes and that […]

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