Supposedly mummified head of Henri IV of France was not belong King himself

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''Next to the Y-chr, the mitochondrial DNA analysis of the head of Henri IV also does not support the presumed identification of the head sample. According to Charlier et al,24 the donor of the head belongs to mtDNA haplogroup U5b* defined by three nucleotide changes at positions m.16239C>T m.16270C>T m.16311T>C (nucleotides are numbered according to the revision of the Cambridge Reference Sequence50) of the mitochondrial hypervariable region 1 (HVR1). These three diagnostic positions were confirmed in two different amplifications of the L16185-H16378 (numbered also according to the revision of the Cambridge Reference Sequence50) HVR1 fragment, proving that the results were reproducible. Henry IV was maternally related with Louis XVII—through his mother Jeanne III d' Albret, over Anna of Habsburg to Marie-Antoinette25, 26 (Figure 2)—but this mtDNA haplogroup belongs to haplogroup H and did not show the three nucleotide changes as seen for the head sample. According to the latest mtDNA phylogenetic tree51 and its most recent update on www.phylotree.com, the MRCA of the head donor and Louis XVII lived more than several tens of thousands years ago.''


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3992573/
 
Does it show them being related? Autosomally?
 

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