Beethoven’s impressive head of hair is yielding new clues about his health problems and his ancestry
Researchers did DNA testing on strands of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair—including the Hiller lock, believed to have been snipped on the day of his funeral—and made some unexpected findings.ByLudwig van .
Friends kept locks of the composer’s hair as keepsakes, and some snipped tokens of remembrance at his deathbed. Nearly two centuries later, an international team of researchers said they used some of those strands to sequence Beethoven’s genome, the complete set of DNA found in every cell.
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