Image: (South Tyrolean Archeology Museum)
As the Max Planck Institute informed yesterday, Ötzi is said to have had Anatolian ancestors, dark skin and an advanced bald head. His genes showed a predisposition to hair loss. An increased risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes was also part of Ötzi’s genes, but thanks to his healthy lifestyle it probably didn’t come into play. Although the genome was already decoded in 2012, advances in sequencing technology have been made since then. In addition to the ancestors, the scientists were also interested in the appearance of the approximately 5,300-year-old glacier mummy. The skin type, already determined as Mediterranean-European in the first genome analysis, was even darker than previously thought.
Source: Nachrichten
