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From: "Kenneth V. Graves" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Results Comments?
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:07:28 -0500
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Gregg Bonner wrote:
<The reason I say I think my 390 value is rare is not based on a
semi-scientific analysis of the Y-STR, but rather just going about the
individual project pages and looking in the results tables for a DYS390=23
value. Seeing none, I concluded (evidently incorrectly) that 23 is rare for
DYS390 (most were DYS390=24).>

Checking the first 79 test results from the Graves/Greaves study, I find
that 24 of the 79 have a DYS390 value of 23, 5 are 25, 1 is 22, and the
remaining 49 are 24.

Ken Graves

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