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Living Relatives Of Iceman Mummy Found (Ötzi, 5,300 Years Old)
Fox News ^ | 10-14-2013 | Rossella Lorenzi

Posted on 10/14/2013 9:09:02 PM PDT by blam

Living Relatives Of Iceman Mummy Found

By Rossella Lorenzi/
Published October 14, 2013/
Discovery News

A reconstruction of Otzi the Iceman -- a remarkably well preserved 5,300-year-old mummy sometimes lovingly called "Frozen Frit" -- created by Dutch forensic experts. (HEIKE ENGEL-21LUX / SDTIROLER ARCHOLOGIEMUSEUM / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DEUTSCHLAND)

Ötzi the Iceman has at least 19 living male relatives in the Austrian Tirol, according to a genetic study into the origins of the people who now inhabit the region.

Scientists from the Institute of Legal Medicine at Innsbruck Medical University analyzed DNA samples taken from 3,700 blood donors in the Tyrol region of Austria.

During their study, they discovered that 19 individuals share a particular genetic mutation with the 5,300-year-old mummy, whose full genome was published last year.

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Indeed, Ötzi’s haplogroup is very rare in Europe.

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(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alps; ancientautopsies; frozen; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; iceman; oetzi; otzi; theiceman; tzi

1 posted on 10/14/2013 9:09:02 PM PDT by blam
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To: SunkenCiv
GGG Ping

Famous DNA

2 posted on 10/14/2013 9:11:18 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Descendant Of Stone Age Skeleton Found (Cheddar Man - 9,000 Years Old)
3 posted on 10/14/2013 9:11:35 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: blam

I wonder if Otzi left a will?


4 posted on 10/14/2013 9:16:44 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: blam

That guy just asked me for money for “bus fare” the other day!


5 posted on 10/14/2013 9:18:01 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: null and void
Cheddar Man had mtDNA haplogroup U5a, same as my dad's mother. (See 'Famous DNA' in my first post)
6 posted on 10/14/2013 9:18:18 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Small world...


7 posted on 10/14/2013 9:20:48 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: blam

Ancestry dot com?


8 posted on 10/14/2013 9:27:21 PM PDT by A_Tradition_Continues (formerly known as Politicalwit ...05/28/98 Class of '98)
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To: blam

Ach du lieber! Oy! Das is meine Yiddische onkel Ötzi - Bernstein.


9 posted on 10/14/2013 10:13:42 PM PDT by QBFimi (When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
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To: blam

They always wondered what had happened to Uncle Oetzi!


10 posted on 10/14/2013 10:14:00 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Right Wing Assault

He wanted a dollar from me.


11 posted on 10/14/2013 10:14:38 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: blam; shibumi

He looks exactly like a certain branch of my kin.

They are Austrian/Welsh mutts.

It freaks me out, how much he looks like them.

[and horribly, I resemble that branch more than my own parents]


12 posted on 10/14/2013 10:25:21 PM PDT by Salamander (Blue Oyster Cult Will Be The Soundtrack For The Revolution.....)
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To: blam

They found the remains of his mother-in-law with the remains of his wife, which explains why he was miles out in the mountains.


13 posted on 10/14/2013 11:10:09 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: Salamander

If that picture at the top of the thread is accurate, then I’ve been out drinking with him.

More than once.


14 posted on 10/14/2013 11:22:06 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: blam
Kris Krisopherson

15 posted on 10/14/2013 11:42:38 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: kaehurowing

I went to Junior High School with an Oetzi, only he ended up in jail for statuatory rape. Come to think of it, he did behave like a caveman. Hmmm. That would explain a lot.


16 posted on 10/14/2013 11:46:24 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: blam
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17 posted on 10/15/2013 3:03:11 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: blam

If these guys were smart, they’d use that genetic information to establish claims for territory where the IceMan was found.


18 posted on 10/15/2013 4:58:42 PM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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Note: this topic was posted 10/15/2013. Thanks blam.


19 posted on 07/27/2014 3:56:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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