AlpGen


Ötzi the Iceman’s Y-haplogroup update

The power of citizen science unfolds by the comparison of public research data with thousends of DTC-test-results. In the case of Ötzi the Iceman the Y-haplogroup found in research papers as terminal is so far G2a2a1a2-L91/PF3246/S285 (b37 position 21645555 G->C). Update August 2020: Ötzi has no known paternal line descendants (more Alpine men Y-DNA would be […]


35 ‘Austrian’ GenBank mtDNA sequences

Ian Logan has posted a very interesting information for Alpine DNA research in the genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com list: A set of 35 ‘Austrian’ mtDNA sequecnes has appeared on GenBank. They are to accompany a paper (unpublished as yet) by: Kloss-Brandstaetter,A., Schaefer,G., Erhart,G., Stoeckl,A., Weissensteiner,H., Forer,L., Schoenherr,S., Pacher,D., Seifarth,C., Sottsas,I., Klocker,H., Pallua,J.D., Kronenberg,F. and Kloss,F.R. “Mutations in the […]