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Is the incestuous detail significant/material to the story or just eyecatching clickbait hooks?

• enchiridion 6y ago
  The article covers DNA sequencing that proves that part of the myth. The cultural implications are also discussed.
• tgflynn 6y ago
  It's pretty much the main point of the story.
• klyrs 6y ago
  > Maoldúin and her colleagues, led by Trinity geneticist Lara Cassidy, sequenced DNA from the disarticulated bones of a man interred in the chamber at the end of the Newgrange tomb’s passage. About a quarter of the man’s genome consisted of very long stretches of homozygous DNA: DNA where both copies of the genes were the same, instead of the mix-and-match pairs most people inherit from their parents. That strongly suggests that his parents were first-degree relatives—probably brother and sister.