Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> We DO have Yuya & Thuya who are either his
> grandparents or greatgrandparents.
But this would not give us necessarily the entire gene strain for determination of Marfan's Syndrome. For example, if the father conveyed the disease to Akhenaten, it wouldn't show up in Tiye's ancestral line, represented by Yuya and Thuya.
Since the mummy we have ostensibly identified as Amenhotep III may in fact be that of Akhenaten, the best one can hope for is identification of those remains exhibiting Marfan's, except that there is
no definitive test for Marfans on skeletal remains.
Recall what I said: "
Marfan's does not strike every member of a family at any rate, as the general rate of an inherited response from one parent is only 50%, but increases to 75% if both parents have the disease. Since there is no single one “test” to diagnose the condition, particularly upon deceased remains, we will never know for sure."
Marfans is not a long lineage inherited condition, but rather a sport mutation, unless
both parents exhibit the disease. This increases to 75% the chance of the children inheriting disease, but in a family of 4, for example, it's still possible that one child will never exhibit the disease. Further, that person will not "carry" the disease to succeeding generations - nor would his affected brothers or sisters carry to all of their offspring (the chance for their children exhibiting the disease is 50%).
Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
Doctoral Candidate
Oriental Institute
Doctoral Programme in Oriental Studies [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom