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From: Phyllis J Brockman <>
Subject: [DNA] Haplotype 16046[G] 16122[C]
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:21:41 -0500
References: <9e.11c46997.27eb74e6@aol.com>


I couldn't make heads or tails out of the recommended websites below. My
scientific background is limited and there are lots of terms I just don't
understand. Anyway, following the directions to determine my haplotype, I've
posted in the subject line. Anybody out there?

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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