Otzi The Iceman's Living Relatives 2014



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Otzi The Iceman
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This long and comprehensive article is a collection of information taken from a large number of Internet scientific sources, dealing with many aspects of what is believed about Otzi. The information on his blood protein and DNA analysis is copied here. The information may not be completely accurate, but it is from reliable information sources. Have a look at the whole article.

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In May 2012, scientists announced the discovery that Otzi still had intact blood cells. These are the oldest blood cells ever identified. In most bodies this old, the blood cells are either shrunken or mere remnants, but Otzi's have the same dimensions as living red blood cells and resembled a modern-day sample.

Oetzi the Iceman's blood is world's oldest   BBC - May 2, 2012
Researchers studying Oetzi, a 5,300-year-old body found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, have found red blood cells around his wounds. Blood cells tend to degrade quickly, and earlier scans for blood within Oetzi's body turned up nothing.

A recent DNA study conducted by Walther Parson of Innsbruck Medical University revealed Otzi has 19 living genetic relatives.

Scientists say Otzi the Iceman has living relatives, 5,300 years later   NBC - October 15, 2013
A researcher examines the 5,300-year-old body of Otzi the Iceman in Bolzano, Italy. No next-of-kin was around to claim the frozen 5,300-year-old body of Otzi the Iceman when it was found in the Italian Alps in 1991, but researchers now report that there are at least 19 genetic relatives of Otzi living in Austria's Tyrol region.

Link to Oetzi the Iceman found in living Austrians   BBC - October 10, 2013
Austrian scientists have found that 19 Tyrolean men alive today are related to Oetzi the Iceman, whose 5,300-year-old frozen body was found in the Alps. Their relationship was established through DNA analysis by scientists from the Institute of Legal Medicine at Innsbruck Medical University. The men have not been told about their connection to Oetzi. The DNA tests were taken from blood donors in Tyrol.

Oetzi the Iceman's nuclear genome gives new insights   BBC - February 28, 2012
New clues have emerged in what could be described as the world's oldest murder case: that of Oetzi the "Iceman", whose 5,300-year-old body was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991. Oetzi's full genome has now been reported in Nature Communications. It reveals that he had brown eyes, "O" blood type, was lactose intolerant, and was predisposed to heart disease. They also show him to be the first documented case of infection by a Lyme disease bacterium. Analysis of series of anomalies in the Iceman's DNA also revealed him to be more closely related to modern inhabitants of Corsica and Sardinia than to populations in the Alps, where he was unearthed.

Gene Map to Give Insight into 5,200-year-old Iceman   Live Science - August 5, 2010 
Iceman, the Neolithic mummy found accidentally in the Eastern Alps by German hikers in 1991, has offered researchers all sorts of clues to life 5,200 years ago, from his goat-hide coat to the meat and unleavened bread in his stomach to the arrow wound in his shoulder.

Analysis of pollen and dust grains and the isotopic composition of his teeth's enamel indicate that he spent his childhood near the present village of Feldthurns, north of Bolzano, but later went to live in valleys about 50 km further north.

Deciphering the Origin, Travels of "Iceman" October 30, 2003 National Geographic 
A 46-year-old man entombed by a glacier about 5,200 years ago high in the mountains that border Austria and Italy probably spent his entire life within a 37-mile (60-kilometer) range south of where he came to his final rest, according to a new study.”