New DNA Study Comparing Ötzi the Iceman With His Neighbors Reveals New Twist!

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New DNA Study Comparing Ötzi the Iceman With His Neighbors Reveals New Twist!

When scientists compared Ötzi the Iceman's DNA to that of his Alpine neighbors, they expected similarity, but what they found shattered that assumption.

Buried in his genes are clues to a vanished lineage, secrets that no living or ancient genome has ever matched. If Ötzi carried the genetic legacy of a lost people, who was he, and what really set him apart on that lonely, frozen pass?

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SOURCES & REFERENCES

Primary Study:
Croze, M., Paladin, A., Zingale, S., Alemanno, S., Nicolis, F., Mottes, E., Maixner, F., Pedrotti, A., Günther, T., Zink, A., & Coia, V. (2025). Genomic diversity and structure of prehistoric alpine individuals from the Tyrolean Iceman's territory. Nature Communications, 16, 6431.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61...
2023 Ötzi Genome Reanalysis:
Wang, K., Prüfer, K., Krause-Kyora, B., Childebayeva, A., Schuenemann, V.J., Coia, V., Maixner, F., Zink, A., Schiffels, S., & Krause, J. (2023). High-coverage genome of the Tyrolean Iceman reveals unusually high Anatolian farmer ancestry. Cell Genomics, 3(8), 100377.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2023.1...
Institutions:

Institute for Mummy Studies, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology

Further Reading:

South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology - Ötzi the Iceman: https://www.iceman.it/en/
Live Science coverage: https://www.livescience.com/archaeolo...
Phys.org summary: https://phys.org/news/2025-07-dna-ana...