Ancient mummy has no modern children: "The 5,300 year old human mummy – dubbed Oetzi or 'the Tyrolean Iceman' – is highly unlikely to have modern day relatives, according to new research published today.
A team comprising scientists from Italy and the UK has sequenced Oetzi's entire mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genome - which is passed down through the maternal line – and found that he belonged to a genetic lineage that is either extremely rare, or that has died out."
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