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Feb 23

Napoleon’s genes

According to el informador the DNA reveals that Napoleon had Caucasian instead of Arab origins.This research was done by Professor Gérard Lucotte and it was published  in the French newspaper “Le Figaro”. After analyzing several hair-pins that belonged to Napoleon, (its belonged to the founder of the Louvre Museum, Dominique VivantDenon) Lucotte was isolated from the Y chromosome profile of Napoleon. This is the male genetic map of  Emperor Bonaparte. The ’haplogroup’ DNA analyzed, used to define the history of the ancestors of a person, coincided with what was found in 10% of the …

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