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Subject: [DNA] Nature article on mitochondrial DNA
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 08:50:05 EST

This may appear in your local newspapers. The Dec 7 issue of Nature has an
article about using the entire mtDNA sequence (not just the hypervariable
region) to construct a tree of our deep ancestry. They only used 53 people
from around the world, which seems like a small number, but perhaps using the
whole mtDNA including parts which change more slowly gives a better overview.
I'll be looking for this article in the library.

You can see press releases from various wire services at

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001206/sc/evolution_dc.html

and the "Feature of the Week" commentary in Nature at

http://www.nature.com/nature/fow/001207.html

Ann Turner

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