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Subject: Re: [DNA] Two MTDNA types
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 23:19:15 EDT


In a message dated 09/09/01 1:12:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:


> Does Oxford ancestors or FTDNA ever report if you carry 2 different types
> of MTDNA like was mentioned in the 7 daughters of eve book about the tsar
> of russia?
>

I've never heard of anyone mentioning that. I suspect they would just report
the predominant sequence. However, "heteroplasmy" is rather rare -- maybe we
just haven't had enough samples to come across it yet.


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