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From: Phyllis J Brockman <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] look-up sites for mtDNA sequences
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:55:10 -0500
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Wow! this is so interesting. I'm not much of a mathematician (English is my
forte), but this weekend I will give this a go. If I understand you correctly,
there may be a more specific match at the web address below and if now now, there
may be eventually. Is that right? You don't have to reply. I'll do my best to
count correctly and I have no problem publishing my haplotype (I'm almost expired
anyway - ha!). Thanks for the information.

wrote:

> In a message dated 03/22/01 6:21:24 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> > As an aside, I just received my mtDNA map from Oxford Ancestors. Found it
> > to be
> > extremely interesting and learned that, as I suspected, I'm really a common
> > sort
> > of human. I was charted to the Clan of Helena, the largest and "most
> > successful"
> > (in terms of propagation) of any of the Seven Daughters of Eve.
>
> If your report looks like mine, there are 400 letters in the sequence,
> chopped into groups of 10 and rows of 100. The letters where your sequence is
> different from the Cambridge Reference Sequence are highlighted in red. You
> count off the letters, making a note of the highlighted letter, then add
> 16000 to the position. You'll end up with a list something like 16233[T]
> 16297[A] 16322[C]
>
> Then you can see if that exact pattern has been reported in the literature
> (it can be a completely new one) at
>
> http://shelob.bioanth.cam.ac.uk/mtDNA/
>
> or
>
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~macaulay/founder2000/index.html
>
> The second site omits the 16000 part, so you would look for 233 297 322
> occuring together.
>
> If you'd like to "publish" your haplotype, e.g. 16233[T] 16297[A] 16322[C],
> in a subject line here on GENEALOGY-DNA, you might find a more specific
> match than just "Helena."
>
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