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Beethoven’s genome has been sequenced for the first time by an international team of scientists using five genetically matching locks of his hair.
Nearly 200 years after Beethoven's death, researchers have pulled DNA from strands of his hair — and found clues about what killed him.
The research, led by the University of Cambridge, the Beethoven Center San Jose and American Beethoven Society, KU Leuven, FamilyTreeDNA, the University Hospital Bonn and the University of Bonn, the Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, uncovers important information about the composer’s health and poses new questions about his recent ancestry and cause of death.
Finally, researchers used an unprecedented technique to reveal new information about the death of the German composer at an early age, by analyzing his DNA based on strands of his hair.
The composer, who wrote some of the best-known music of all time, was not a legitimate ‘Beethoven’, scientists have discovered