Comments on: Iceman Mummy Lost Darwin's Game: He Seems to Have No Modern Kin

By: Chemistry

Chemistry — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:06:16 +0000

Interesting! I would think that women were spared when a tribe was conquered by other tribes, but perhaps that particular haplogroup didn’t end well… But, is it possible that the Iceman’s mtDNA haplogroup mutated into a contemporary form later?

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By: james

james — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:21:04 +0000

mtDNA as a tool to catalog human gene groups is better than Y-DNA, as the latter can only be used to catalog half of the human being.

By: Nina Bai

Nina Bai — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:55:02 +0000

@Frans

Looks like the researchers are asking the same question! According to an article in The Scientist:

“Rollo’s team now plans to attempt the sequencing of Öetzi’s Y chromosome DNA, which is less abundant than mtDNA, but offers a counterpart to mtDNA, in that it is passed only through the paternal line.

‘It will be also very interesting to see whether the descendents of Öetzi indeed are all extinct,’ Rollo said. ‘[As far as we know], no one can claim to be the descendent of Öetzi but, who knows, perhaps in a lonely Alpine valley…’”

(http://www.the-scientist.com/templates/trackable/display/blog.jsp?type=blog&id=55145&o_url=blog/display/55145)

By: Frans Schuitemaker

Frans Schuitemaker — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:09:38 +0000

Frans
As you can see that is my name also. what is your last name?

By: Frans

Frans — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:42:11 +0000

Does anybody know if Oetzi’s paternal halogroup is known?

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:46:51 +0000

The claim that “Ötzi, does not appear to have any living relatives in Europe” is nonsense. All the lack of Otzi’s mtDNA being found today suggests (but does not prove) is that there is no unbroken matrimonial line back to Otzi’s mother or her mother etc. Males do not pass on mtDNA so Otzi could have had a dozen children and thousands of descendants but they would not carry his mtDNA.
There could be many descendants of his mother, her mother etc, but only unbroken female lines will show mtDNA the same as Otzi’s.
Cheers