A team of researchers Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) have recovered DNA from the blood called the French King Louis XVI, guillotined in 1793. The blood was kept inside a pumpkin and was held by a family of Bologna had been more than a century.
A group of CSIC researchers have found DNA from the blood that supposedly belonged to the French King Louis XVI. CSIC.
Scientists traced the mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome in the remains of a brown substance, presumably the blood of the French king, as the coordinator of the research team, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, a joint CSIC and the University Pompeu Fabra. It was found that the sample analyzed corresponded to a European male whose genetic information came from lineages hard to find in the current databases.
also detected the mutation located HERC2 in the gene that determines the blue eyes and that is the color that the eye has been portrayed in the paintings of the monarchs of the time. While undertaking to guarantee the authenticity of the sample for possible living relatives of the king, "not located any," says Lalueza-Fox.
The only way to prove that indeed the remains studied included Louis XVI is to compare the Y chromosome with the genetic profile of the mummified heart attributed to his son, Louis XVII, which is preserved in the Basilica of Saint Denis in Paris. Historic moment
The chronicles of the time, many citizens went to the scaffold to dip their handkerchiefs in the blood of the monarch at the time of execution to keep a souvenir of the historic event. Tested blood came from one of those scarves that was deposited into a pumpkin, but which are not preserved remains beyond brown substance analyzed.
Pumpkin decorated with pictorial art and valued at two million euros, shows pictures of several actors of the French Revolution, George Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, Camille Desmoulins, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Jean Paul Marat, the Queen Mary Antoinette and Louis XVI himself.
A group of CSIC researchers have found DNA from the blood that supposedly belonged to the French King Louis XVI. CSIC.
Scientists traced the mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome in the remains of a brown substance, presumably the blood of the French king, as the coordinator of the research team, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, a joint CSIC and the University Pompeu Fabra. It was found that the sample analyzed corresponded to a European male whose genetic information came from lineages hard to find in the current databases.
also detected the mutation located HERC2 in the gene that determines the blue eyes and that is the color that the eye has been portrayed in the paintings of the monarchs of the time. While undertaking to guarantee the authenticity of the sample for possible living relatives of the king, "not located any," says Lalueza-Fox.
The only way to prove that indeed the remains studied included Louis XVI is to compare the Y chromosome with the genetic profile of the mummified heart attributed to his son, Louis XVII, which is preserved in the Basilica of Saint Denis in Paris. Historic moment
The chronicles of the time, many citizens went to the scaffold to dip their handkerchiefs in the blood of the monarch at the time of execution to keep a souvenir of the historic event. Tested blood came from one of those scarves that was deposited into a pumpkin, but which are not preserved remains beyond brown substance analyzed.
Pumpkin decorated with pictorial art and valued at two million euros, shows pictures of several actors of the French Revolution, George Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, Camille Desmoulins, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Jean Paul Marat, the Queen Mary Antoinette and Louis XVI himself.
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