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Ancient 'Iceman' Had Modern Ailments | Synopsis

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Ancient 'Iceman' Had Modern Ailments

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Scientists have decoded the genome of the 5,300-year-old Tyrolean iceman, found in 1991 in the Alps close to the border between Austria and Italy. (EuroPics/Newscom) They called him "the Tyrolean iceman" when hikers found him in the Italian Alps in 1991 -- the frozen corpse of a man from 5,300 years ago, remarkably well-preserved. The man became one of the most-studied cadavers of modern times. Scientists nicknamed him Oetzi, after the Oetztal Alps, where he was found, and tried to unravel the mystery he presented. Now, researchers from Europe and the U.S. have sequenced his genome -- his complete DNA -- and found he suffered many of the same ailments people do today. They reported he was genetically predisposed to heart disease, and can lay claim to having had the earliest documented case of Lyme disease.

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Carlos D. Bustamante

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0.382757"What's fascinating is that it's so incredibly well-preserved," said Carlos D. Bustamante, ...
0.217395"What's fascinating is that it's so incredibly well-preserved," said Carlos D. Bustamante, a population geneticist at Stanford Medical School in California, who helped in the analysis of the genome. "When you look at DNA, so much of it is usually contaminated with bacteria and the like."
0"Are Sardinians closer to people like him from back then?" asked Bustamante.
0"Are Sardinians closer to people like him from back then?" asked Bustamante. "Or was he Sardinian, and on vacation in the Alps?"
-0.136134"It's also very possible he could have been a rambler who happened to die in the mountains," he added. ...
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FieldTerminology: DNA

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HealthCondition: heart disease

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HealthCondition: Lyme disease

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Facility: Oetztal Alps

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Country: Austria

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