On April Fool's Day 2008, the National Museum of Denmark announced that DNA research had established that it was 97% certain that the Egtved girl - Egtvedpigen in Danish - was actually a boy. Quite unexpectedly, the girl turned out to have an Y-chromosome.
I øvrigt har dna-forskerne forsøgt at se, om de kunne finde dna hos Egtvedpigen. Det lykkedes ikke, fordi hendes dna ikke kan isoleres.
Vi var mere forskellige i fortidenDna-undersøgelser har overrasket forskerne: Der var større genetisk variation blandt danskerne frem til middelalderen, end der er i dag.
The DNA extraction method used for hair (Egtvedpigen and the individuals from Borum Eshøj) is described in Gilbert et al. (2007) as the “CPH laboratory”-method.