Ötzi, the Tyrolean Iceman belonged to Y-haplogroup G2a4
Interview Dr. Eduard Egarter-Vigl, Head of Conservation and Assistant to research projects of the Archaeological Museum in Bozen.
From the Docu-Movie: "Ötzi, ein Archäologiekrimi" [Ötzi, a Archaeology Crime] by Christine Sprachmann [CC-BY].
TV-Broadcasted by 3sat 10th august 2011 and br-alpha 13th september 2011.
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Since six months, the full decoding of the genome of the Iceman is done. It has been sequenced and it is almost totally there. Certain genes that are relevant to the origin, Y-chromosome, for example, can be examined well. The characterization of the genome regarding the origin goes over [...] information known as haplogroups. This is a summary of information. And the haplogroup to which the Iceman belonged is the haplogroup G2a4. So, this is a terminus tecnicus who don't tell anyone something, but it is so. And this group is known, that it is now very rare in Europe. Interestingly, it is still in Sardinia. Sardinia is as an island a so-called Micro-isolate where the population has hardly changed and so has developed genetically fairly constant. But there is this haplogroup [...] in Eurasian regions, ie those from which we know that Europe was actually populated.