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From: "Ian Logan" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] FBI mtDNA database
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 22:41:39 +0100
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Hello Ann, and other interested list members

You said you wanted feedback and discussion. So ...

This database downloads easily. It is set up as a self-expanding file of
5.8 Mb.
The manual is 1.1 Mb in length, and has 50 PDF pages. The program is very
simple to use - and the manual does not have to be studied in any real
detail to get
started. Just try some things .... and it seems to work

I cannot say that I am into forensic mtDNA, but I put a friend's ULRIKE
details
in to see what happened. If I have it right, one just puts in the ranges
where there
are mutations, which is simply in this example 16351-16360,
just say the mutation is 16356 C - and press SEARCH.

And up pop the results - as TXT, HTM, & EXCEL files.

For this mutation there is a very low frequency - only 1.5% worldwide.
But, in Caucasians it is 3%.
My friend is sure he is a real Viking - so he should be Caucasian !

I know this is just a beginning, and it is perhaps a bit simplistic putting
in
a single point mutation - but there are definite possibilities here.

I wonder how it works out for some of the rare mtDNA sequences that people
have 'listed' recently.

Good luck everyone.

Ian Logan

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Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 4:03 PM
Subject: [DNA] FBI mtDNA database


> Keith L. Monson, Kevin Miller (one of the creators of the Mitochondrial
DNA
> Concordance) and colleagues have opened up the FBI mtDNA database for
public
> access. The article is in the current issue of "Forensic Science
> Communications) (April 2002 Volume 4 Number 2 if you need to find the
article
> when the "current" part of the URL expires):
> http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/current/miller1.htm
> You can download the database, a user's manual, and software which queries
> the database and generates reports (about 5MB). I took a quick look at
this,
> and it looks like I'll need to study it a little bit to learn how to set
> parameters in the best way for us. I'm busy with other projects right now,
> but this is on the top of my to-do list. In the meantime, maybe some of
you
> would like to experiment with it and report your findings.
> Ann Turner
> GENEALOGY-DNA List Administrator

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