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From: Rebekah Canada <>
Subject: Re: [DNA-NEWBIE] MTDNA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 02:48:05 -0600
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Hi,

You cannot get your haplogroup from HVR1 because most mutations for
haplogroups come from the slow moving coding region.

What FTDNA and National Geographic do is run a SNP panel. SNP stands
for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism. They run a panel of 24. Of course,
if you go for the mtDNA full sequence then you get the whole shebang.

What 23andMe does is also a panel of SNPs although it is a larger one.

Best,
Rebekah

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Andy Micklethwaite
<> wrote:
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>
> So why can't I get my haplogroup from the HVR1 data on Sorenson?
> Confused!
> Andy.

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