Genetic genealogy reveals true y haplogroup of House of Bourbon contradicting recent identification of the presumed remains of two French Kings

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 681-687

  Larmuseau, Maarten H D ^a,b,c   Delorme, Philippe ^d   Germain, Patrick ^e   Vanderheyden, Nancy ^a   Gilissen, Anja ^a   Van Geystelen, Anneleen ^a,c   Cassiman, Jean Jacques ^a   Decorte, Ronny ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF IMAGING AND PATHOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d Independent Researcher   (France)

^e Laboratory of Socioecology and Social Evolution Department of Biology KU Leuven ^*  (France)

Author keywords

ancient DNA; genetic identification; Henri IV; Louis XVI; mitochondrial DNA; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FRANCE; GENE MUTATION; GENEALOGY; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; Y CHROMOSOME; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84898772478     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2013.211     Document Type: Article

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