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Nicolaus Copernicus: Y-DNA

In July 2009 an article called
Genetic identification of putative remains of the famous astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
by authors Wiesław Bogdanowicz, Marie Allen, Wojciech Branicki, Maria Lembring, Marta Gajewska and Tomasz Kupiec
was issued in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0901848106

Full text of this article in the pdf format is not free available.

In the article the 16 STR markers values of Nicolaus Copernicus were published:

DYS393="13" DYS390="23" DYS19="14" DYS391="11" DYS385a="11" DYS385b="13"
DYS439="12" DYS3891="13" DYS392="13" DYS3892="29" DYS458="19"
DYS437="15" DYS448="19" DYS456="16" GATA-H4="11" DYS438="12" DYS635="23"
(Yfiler)

Abstract and the first comments.



Preliminary comparison within the Czech Database found the best match 15/17, gd=3 with the record E1701.


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