Category: Ötzi
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Ötzi – more Neandertal than the average bear
Neandertal ancestry “Iced”: Evaluating recent evolution, migration and Neandertal ancestry in the Tyrolean Iceman Paleogenetic evidence from Neandertals, the Neolithic and other eras has the potential to transform our knowledge of human po…
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Seeing Ötzi through our eyes
Dienekes got his hands on Otzi’s genome finally, and decided to confirm some suspicions. In general no great surprise, though I think the number of SNPs he used (44,000) is a little on the low side for the questions he was asking. But the details here aren’t too relevant because all the available evidence points…
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Ötzi, the dead sea scrolls of genomics?
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 Ötzi embargo
Dienekes has some harsh words for the way some science is produced, focusing on the genome of Ötzi the Iceman as a case in point: Yesterday, I twitted in exasperation that Otzi’s genome, which must have been available in at least some sort of draft form since at least the beginning of this year, has been under…
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Ötzi, first, but not last, farmer?
Dienekes relays that Ötzi the Iceman carried the G2a4 male haplogroup. He goes on to observe: We now have G2a3 from Neolithic Linearbandkeramik in Derenburg and G2a in Treilles in addition to Ötzi from the Alps. G2a folk got around. He joins Stalin and Louis XVI as a famous G2a. It was already clear with…
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Hints of Ötzi’s genome
John Hawks points to a report in Science on some morsels of information about Ötzi-the-Iceman’s genetics, The Iceman’s Last Meal: Also at the meeting, researchers led by geneticist Angela Graefen of the Institute for Mummies and the Icema…
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Size doesn’t always matter
The autosomal genome of Ötzi the Austrian “Iceman” is apparently in the pipeline (from what I can tell they’re doing the analysis right now). What can we learn from one sample? Ann Stone, who was a graduate student on the original team which recovered his body, says: A specialist in anthropological genetics, Stone is excited…