Introduction To see recent articles on the lead study in The New York Times and the Viennese Der Standard, see: A report in the journal …
Beethoven’s Lead Poisoning (May 6, 2024)
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The Inauthenticity of the Hiller Lock of “Beethoven’s” Hair: A Close Examination of Its Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Data
In the March 22, 2023, Current Biology publication on analyses of Beethoven’s genome, “Genomic Analyses of Hair from Ludwig van Beethoven,” we revealed that the …
The Genome and Beethoven’s Liver Disease
Preface by William Meredith One of the most important mysteries in Beethoven’s biography has been what caused his death from liver failure and kidney disease. …
The Beethoven Genome Project
2014-2023 March 22, 2023: Ludwig van Beethoven’s genome has been sequenced for the first time by an international team of thirty-two scientists using five genetically …